"Choosing to be with you isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline," he breathed, pulling back one final time to stare into my eyes. "It's easy. Incredibly easy." 
 When I first started Easy, I was slightly afraid of where the story was heading after reading the first scene. Let's just say that if I started the book, feeling sleepy, the first scene definitely poured a bucket of cold water on me and yanked me from my happy bubble-it was jarring. I became even slightly more troubled after Jacqueline decided not to report the assault, wondering if this was going to be another book in which the protagonist suffers in silence, like Speak. (view spoiler)[Especially after reading this paragraph: 
 "I envisioned the campus police arriving at the scene, the partygoers who would spill from the house when the sirens came. Erin and Chaz were only two of the many friends I had in there, more than half of them under-aged and drinking. It would be my fault if the party became the focus of the police. I would be a pariah." (view spoiler)[Although in Speak the police was called and since no one knew what truly happened, she was branded as an outcast (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)] 
 I seriously didn't think I could deal with that. Then, as the story progressed, I became worried that Webber was using the assault as a kind of foundation for the romance, in which the story starts with the assault but then it takes a backseat to the couple's romance. Like a plot point upon which Lucas and Jacqueline build a relationship. 
 Let me just say I was so glad that wasn't the case, and also pleasantly surprised at the way Webber handled the story. It was almost like a slight antithesis to Speak, but still delivering the same message and if not more. 
 What I really liked about the story is the way the plot was executed, particularly the underlying messages of the story that came across to the reader without being too subtle or too overbearing. I believe Webber conveyed her message in the right amount. (view spoiler)[Especially the one in which there's a discussion among the characters and one of them seems to imply that it isn't rape if: 
 1. You weren't a virgin and the person forced himself/herself on you. 
 2. If you were willing before and then you changed your mind at the last minute while the person carried on. 
 3. If the assault was stopped before it escalated further (even if it was clear what the intentions were). 
 I'm truly glad that Webber corrected all those implications, because no matter what, a sexual encounter without mutual consent is rape. Other messages were about speaking up and empowering women. (hide spoiler)] 
 But moving on, I was interested in the story line-especially Lucas and Jacqueline's romance. There are some times you read a romance novel and you smile/grin/blush/swoon when you're reading about the two characters falling in love. And the last novel, that really made me feel this way was Anna and the French Kiss. Easy certainly made it to the swooning category. I felt the romance also did much to uplift the somewhat darker events that happened in the book. Webber found the right balance between it being serious and being light in certain moments. 
 I loved reading Lucas and Jacqueline's texts (view spoiler)[and emails (hide spoiler)]and also their makeout sessions, boy, were they quite hot. Though my college experience didn't quite resemble Jacqueline's, I could almost see a resemblance between Landon's emails and the emails one of my TAs used to send me, that pretty much tried to explain a programming course. (And surprisingly, he was also an engineering student.) 
 In conclusion, Easy was a delightful read. It had its moments of angst, laughter, and sweetness.