Review: A Long Time (And at One Point Illegal) Crush by Janette Rallison

From Amazon: From the day Elsie’s big brother brought his friend Kye McBride over to their house, Elsie adored him. When she was eight she secretly blew kisses to him. When she was twelve she sat on the stairs, unnoticed, and watched him escort another girl to prom. When she was a senior in high school, she walked into math class and found out he was her new math teacher.

With that much emotion fueling her, things were bound to go wrong. And they did. Elsie not only spent the last two weeks of school avoiding him, she turned avoiding-Kye-at-all-costs into her life-long philosophy.

Now three years have passed and Elsie has come home for her brother’s wedding. She’s got to face Kye-–hopefully without getting crushed again.

This book was recommended to me by a friend, and let me say, it was definitely worth it. Its a quick, feel good read about a love story that was "meant" to be. Elsie has loved Kye since she was eight and he was fourteen. But when he came back to teach at her school her senior year, her feelings became, as the title says, illegal.
Both handled the awkward situation badly but in a completely understandable way. I think the author did a great job at getting into a teenage girl's head and understanding the conflict she would hold.
I read this in about three hours, but they were worth it. After feeling stuck in a rut with my reading material, this definitely brightened my day.