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17-year old perpetual new girl Lena Rose Winter moves wherever her mother's job takes their family of two. Her mobile lifestyle, coupled with her tragic history, keeps her from connecting with people. Her natural beauty and wit, however, always gets people's attention - including that of hot, mysterious classmate Liam Christopher Black.

Liam, an orphan who has no one left in his life but his grandmother, bears his own scars. The loss of his family in an accident has left him unable to speak. The two teenagers connect immediately, quickly becoming best friends. Through the challenges of fitting in at school, to the larger twists and turns of the real world, Liam and Lena's truly "Unique Kind of Love" conquers them all.

Jasmine Rose's A Unique Kind of Love is a sweet, little contemporary young adult romance with all the right ingredients: likeable characters, teenage angst, drama and humor. It hits the right emotional notes too, not unlike the mellow contemporary pop songs it quotes and seems to have drawn inspiration from, including works byHarry Styles, Christina Perri and Ed Sheeran.

If you need a little break from the sea of dystopian and paranormal YA books that are out there, A Unique Kind of Love may be just the book for you. Its clever teenage cast of characters might not be heroes bearing the weight of the world, but it's a little reminder that family, young love and romance in the high school setting is a struggle too.