4.5 stars. 
 "No one has ever made me feel like the person I've always wanted to be until you. You make me feel beautiful, Nate. All the way through. No one else has ever given me that. No one." 
 In Samantha Young' s 3rd full length novel in her On Dublin Street series, we get Olivia and Nate's story. We first meet Olivia and Nate in Jo and Cam's book, Down London Road. Nate is Cam' s best friend and Olivia is Jo's American non-sister sister (it makes more sense if you're read the former book). While this book can be read as a standalone, it's good if you read the previous two books in the series as you'll appreciate knowing the backstory of all of the supporting characters while reading this installment. 
 If you see my ratings or reviews for Young' s previous books, it's no surprise that I love her writing. On Dublin Street is still one of my favorite books (and one I've read more than once). Down London Road was brilliant awesome. I think what I really appreciate about Young' s writing is the way she writes her characters, and not just her female characters, whom I love, but her men too. Her characters are so different from book to book, yet I've still fell in love with them all. Joss, from On Dublin Street is fierce and strong, but vunerable at the same time. Olivia is a very different character, while also strong, she's self-conscious, but she also knows who she wants to be. Samantha Young's strength is in making us feel along with the characters. I've said it before, but I think I'd read anything by Ms. Young! 
 In Before Jamaica Lane, Olivia, who has come to Scotland from America to live with her Scottish father, has found a true friend in Nate. Nate is gorgeous, funny, smart, and a manwhore, which is one reason why he and Olivia are only friends. 
 "And Nate wasn't just beautiful on the outside. Underneath the playing was a guy more loyal than most, earthly, compassionate and-let's face it-giving." 
 Liv is extremely self-conscious about her body, even thinking she is not sexually attractive. 
 'I believed in all the things written within me, I'd just somehow along the way stopped believing in my book jacket.' 
 Things all change one drunken night when Nate walks her home, and she admits to him her extreme sexual inexperience. When she boldly asks Nate to school her on sex, things change for these two. AND things get complicated. And sexy! There is a lot more sex in this book than in previous installments of this series, by virtue of the fact that Olivia is getting a sexual education. And the sex is HOT! Nate is VERY experienced indeed, he likes the dirty talk, and seems to really, really enjoy his "lessons" with Liv multiple times, if you know what I am saying. 
 Unsurprisingly, as these stories go, things get complicated, feelings are hurt and a wedge is forced between these two. Liv begins to have her own personal awakening, realizing that she is worth the devotion and love of someone exclusively and she doesn't think Nate is ready to give her. 
 'Shaking my head, I stepped to the side so he couldn't back me into the corner. "Nate, you have to leave." 
 Instead, he studied me carefully. "You're not ready to hear this yet," he concluded. "But I do need you to know that I'm going to fight for you. I'm not making the mistake of walking away from you again. The only man in your future is me, Liv."' 
 Ahhh, I love Nate! This guy really had it all. gorgeous, funny, smart, and brilliant in bed. How could Liv not fall for him? And the fact that they were best friends, and had so much in common, when they added sex to the relationship, and they were so sexually compatible, their relationship just seemed to make sense - to the reader that is - not so much to our hero. But Nate's not a dummy, he was bound to find his way. 
 The book ends with an epilogue which I generally love as a rule. And I loved the first half of the epilogue, it wrapped up the story in such a beautiful package. However, I could have done without the second half of the epilogue, and so would have rather read what happens in their future from reading Hannah's book (the next in the series). And that is really the only negative note I have for this entire book.