A winner and an International Survey!

We have a winner of the Keta Diablo Blog Tour stop here. The lucky new owner of a digital copy of Where the Rain is Made is

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Camille

I will send your Email addy to Keta now!

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I would like to hear your opinion about something. The last 2 days I read Anytime Darlin' by Julia Rachel Barrett. I completely adored this book- it's just wonderful (review will be up later today or tomorrow).
But there is a thing I noticed before I even started it. I read a review and the reviewer found something "creepy" and I didn't get why. So let me explain first: Devlin, the heroine meets the hero for the first time at the age of 17, nearly 18. Jake is 24 at that point and these two fell in love without telling each other. They didn't do anything more than holding each others hands and one little tiny kiss like you would kiss your brother. 5 years later they get together.

So this other reviewer felt uncomfortable because Devlin was actually still a minor and Jake was 24. So anyone else making this face O_o now? Perhaps it's a European thing but this is totally legal here and I don't think anyone would ever look strange at this couple here. Okay it would a difference if Jake would be 38 or even really creepy if he were 50 but 24? Is that really too old for her? I for myself always looked for older men mostly because the boys my age were always too immature for my taste. I got together with BF at 17 and he was already 20 at that point.

I don't want to make anyone's opinion wrong here I'm actually just interested in knowing how you would look at such a pair.

Do you think 17 is old enough to have a relationship with a 24 year old?

Where would you draw the line of being too young?

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