Falling for Ryan

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Summary: the bestest!
Review: I love to read, and I have read all the Love Stories Series books so for! This book was good, but it didn't get to the good stuff fast enough! Kylie took too long to notice that she had fallen for Ryan! To me she should have noticed this in the second chapter instead of at almost the end of the book! But above all of this I think it was an O.K. book! That is when Kylie noticed her feeling for Ryan!

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Summary: The book was O.K.!
Review: I love to read, and I have read all the Love Stories Series books so for! This book was good, but it didn't get to the good stuff fast enough! Kylie took too long to notice that she had fallen for Ryan! To me she should have noticed this in the second chapter instead of at almost the end of the book! But above all of this I think it was an O.K. book! That is when Kylie noticed her feeling for Ryan!

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Summary: One of the Best in the Series
Review: I loved this book. It was one of the best I ever read!!!!!!!! This girl named kylie hates this guy named Ryan. He beats her in the president election becasue he made all these promises he couldn't keep. THen finally when Kylie gets away from school and goes on her Adventure Trails trip, she finds out that Ryan is there. But after she spends a little time with him she doesn't think he is annoying anymore. She even think she likes him. But will Ryan feel the same for her or will he go out with her best friend Stephanie. whose to know?

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Summary: One of the Best in the Series
Review: I really liked this one. And Kylie's character is so totally believable.

Kylie has just lost the election for class president to Ryan, whom she thinks is a total idiot and loser, and won't live up to the expectations of being class president. And she tells him so in his yearbook, as she writes him a really nasty note. Only she thinks about it when her hands her yearbook back with a nice note written in it. But not for long. The school year ends, and she is off to camp. SHe can't wait either. She meets Stephanie for the first time, a girl who she had been sharing emails with for the past few months, and she meets Dirk, whom she thinks is a total hottie..... and she meets Ryan. She can't believe it and thinks her summer is ruined. SO she is glad when Stephanie falls for Ryan (not hard though, just a crush flirty sort of way). Anyways, during the book, they both realize that they are totally into each other, and how not perfect Kylie and Dirk would be together. And Wes, the counselor sees it before anyone else does.
I really like this book. Stephanie is a true friend. SHe's the one who tells Kylie that in her heart, she knows that Kylie is in love with Ryan, and even thought she had the hots for him first, she really supports Kylie into getting her guy. In the end of the story, Ryan is really romantic and protects her. Well just read the book and you'll realize why I liked it too. I would have liked it better though if Dirk and Stephanie had hooked up cause they would have been good together.

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Summary: Fun for all
Review: Speaking as a 27-year-old male, I found Julie Taylor's Falling For Ryan to be a fun-filled, well-crafted thrill ride through the girls' restrooms and overnight camping trips of the teen romance genre. The opening of this 30th installment in the Love Stories series puts the reader in the middle of the action, as the blond sixteen-year old heroine, Kylie, laments her just-that-minute loss to Ryan Barron in the Senior Class President election (by only 50 votes!) The excitement builds and the reader finds himself/herself perched on the cusp of a temporal transition: as one major event ends (the election and junior year, both of which signify months of significant trials and challenges) another (summer break and the upcoming 18-day Adventure Trails trip) is just beginning.

The transitional-action dramatic structure is an especially apt metaphor to employ for a novel set in the teen years, a period of life (if I remember correctly) when girls and guys face transitions at every turn: from junior year to senior year, from senior year to college, and eventually, off in the distance, there lurks the supposedly final transition, post-matriculation, into young adults.

This ultimate transition, or right of passage, is represented in Falling For Ryan by Wes, the 28 year-old Adventure Trails guide and college graduate in Environmental Studies; a character whose "otherness," (determined by his advanced years) is spotlighted with Kylie's declaration: "he would be cute if he was 10 years younger." This is the character I suppose I should relate to, since I am 10 years senior to every other character in the book, but it is hard to say because none of the other males have been assigned personalities.

Rather, the teen men are presented as types--stock, one-trait characters for the teen women to interact with as a means to explore their thoughts and feelings and "crushes." This technique is similar to the stock gender development found in young men's literature, comic books and so forth, where the women are generally represented as beautiful objects to be rescued or fought over. Stock genderizing is a time-honored technique dating back to the dramatists of Shakespeare's period and before, and it is used to great effect in Falling For Ryan.

We learn, for instance, a lot about Kylie through the way she reacts to Ryan's perpetual smirk and constant tone of blustering sarcasm. In one instance she tells Ryan off, publicly, with the point-blank remark "With friends like you, who needs enemies." The speechless stare she receives from Ryan and the "oohs and aahs" emanating from the class are well deserved. Kylie is a witty and assertive young lady, and we can thank the author for setting up a stock foil like Ryan to demonstrate those qualities. The other men in the story are also stock types, from Dennis the chivalrous Texan and competitor for Kylie's affections, to Taylor, the freckled Brawny-paper-towel-lumberjack-looking guy. By bouncing her various comments and colorful personality against these men and witnessing their predictable answers, Kylie is able to show us just what she is capable of, which is quite a lot!

Yet it is to the author's credit that even with half the story's characters stock typed, she is still able to leave the door open for some rich and complex plot twists. Subtle hints, like Ryan's supposed interest in photography, his skill with making blueberry/banana pancakes, and even the "nice" note he writes in Kylie's yearbook way back in Chapter one, hint that just maybe the stock typed Ryan holds the promise to transform himself, much like in the ending of the classic Pinocchio tale, into the three-dimensional character that our assertive, sensitive, and utterly likeable heroine deserves. I won't give away the ending, but suffice it to say that Falling For Ryan is as aptly titled as it is beautifully constructed.

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Summary: Hello Everyone!
Review: Thank you for your interest in Falling for Ryan. I am also the author of Franco American Dreams and Spy Girls #1: Licensed to Thrill. Feel free to e-mail me .

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Summary: This Book is So Good!
Review: This book waz so good! I couldnt put it down! I Love this series and recommand that you read this if you like love stories

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Summary: The best teen romance ever!
Review: This teen romance was the best ever. Even ifyou don't like teen romances, you will after reading this. The two characters absolutley hate each other, and their personalities are totally realistic. I think that this romance novel was truly awesome. You definitly won't be able to put it down.

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Summary: the bestest!
Review: this was a very good book! i love they way that they got lost and Ryan had to take control, and they ended up togeather the whole night! it was also cool, cause they both confessed that they both had liked each other for a while!

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Summary: Wonderful.
Review: Two self-proclaimed enemies learn more about each other than they want to on a wilderness trip. Very, very sweet.