There’s been a lot of books I’ve read recently that haven’t made it to a review blog post. Some I had so much to say about, but unfortunately, my blogging drive has ben sketchy at best! So, in hopes that some day I DO get to write a review for them, but also wishing this will placate that restless part of me that demands of them to have a rating, I’m doing this! 🙂
If You Stay
If You Stay by Courtney Cole Published by Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 9781444785685
on January 30th 2014
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Coming of Age
Pages: 352
My rating:
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Synopsis
The first book in the Beautifully Broken series. Twenty-four-year-old Pax Tate is not always a nice guy. He's a tattooed, rock-hard bad boy with a bad attitude to match. But he's got his reasons. His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt. As Pax grew up, he tried to be the perfect golden boy but his dad couldn't overcome his grief long enough to notice. Pax couldn't keep up the impossible perfect façade, so he slipped far, far from it. Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugly, black void in his heart. Until he meets sweet, beautiful Mila Hill. Mila is a carefree smile to his hardened frown, the beauty to his beast. When memories of his mother's death resurface, Mila is there to help him mend his broken heart . . . but only if he can stop being a jerk long enough to allow it. Pax says he's working on it. But is that enough to make her stay?
I was suprised by how much I enjoyed this book! I had mostly lost my faith in these kind of books, since it’s all sex, and no real content. But the mix of very complex topics like trust, and past traumas, and family issues, plus the sexy scenes, made this an unforgettable story!
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Easy
Easy by Tammara Webber Published by Penguin on October 9th 2012
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, New Adult, Young Adult, Social Issues
Pages: 336
My rating:
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Synopsis
A Contours of the Heart Novel
The New York Times Bestseller by Tammara Webber
Rescued by a stranger.
Haunted by a secret
Sometimes, love isn’t easy…He watched her, but never knew her. Until thanks to a chance encounter, he became her savior…
The attraction between them was undeniable. Yet the past he’d worked so hard to overcome, and the future she’d put so much faith in, threatened to tear them apart.
Only together could they fight the pain and guilt, face the truth—and find the unexpected power of love.
A groundbreaking novel in the New Adult genre, Easy faces one girl's struggle to regain the trust she's lost, find the inner strength to fight back against an attacker, and accept the peace she finds in the arms of a secretive boy.
A college age, New Adult Romance
Not as well-written and gripping as If You Stay, but Lucas as a love interest was likable enough. He wasn’t some pretty boy whose only charming quality is his ability to have a penetrating stare. What I really liked about this one is the theme of rape that was, in my opinion, decently handled. It condemns the keeping quiet about sexual assaults and how rape culture IS a thing.
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Tangled
Tangled by Emma Chase Published by Simon and Schuster on August 2nd 2013
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Pages: 224
My rating:
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Synopsis
In New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase’s sizzling and hilarious debut novel, Drew Evans—gorgeous, arrogant, irreverent, and irresistibly charming—meets his match in new colleague Kate Brooks.
Drew Evans is handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York’s most beautiful women with just a smile. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed? He’ll tell you he has the flu. But we all know that’s not really true.
Katherine Brooks is brilliant, beautiful and ambitious. When Kate is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating.
Tangled is not your mother’s romance novel. It is an outrageous, passionate, witty narrative about a man who knows a lot about women…just not as much as he thinks. As he tells his story, Drew learns the one thing he never wanted in life, is the only thing he can’t live without.
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THIS BOOK!
I can’t recommend it enough! The entire thing is narrated from Drew’s POV. It’s hilarious, it’s deep, and sexy all at the same time!
I’d had this one in my sights for quite a long time, but I had my doubts since the characters’ age is higher than the ones I normally read about. = I’m used to reading just YA and NA. And Tangled most definitely borders on Adult. It was just very different, but I’m glad that my first book in this almost-genre was this one because it was awesome. This was the best Male POV I’ve read in a while!
That said, I’m a little hesitant to read the sequel because while I’m even now missing the amazing writing style, I’m afraid the magic of the first book will be tarnished by dull replicas. Only time will tell if I’m going to pick up the others!
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