I’ve followed Jessica Scott’s Twitter for years and I value her perspective. As one who has actually served in the armed forces, she has a lot of intelligent things to say and in some of her prior books, she’s written not just good romance, but thoughtful stories period. In reading Before I Fall, one catches…
Narrated by Susanna Duff I’ve had my eye on Best Kind of Broken for a while and as my TBL is a lot shorter than my TBR (aka the TBR of Doom), audio seemed like the best option. I really enjoyed Susanna Duff’s narration so I’m more than happy with my choice. Sarah “Pixie” Marshall…
Julie Cross’s Whatever Life Throws At You straddles the line between Young Adult (the heroine is only seventeen) and New Adult (the characters have sex), making it hard to categorize. A wonky ending and a bit of slow pacing kept it from being an A read for me, but I can still recommend it for…
While I found it a bit uneven, I really enjoyed Julie Cross’s Third Degree. What starts out as a fairly light fish-out-of-water story ultimately develops into something much deeper, an examination of what it means to be a successful doctor and healer. All of this in a New Adult title – who could have guessed?…
Narrated by Chandra Skyye Meet Evelyn Miller. She’s a nineteen-year-old voice student whose greatest talent seems to be wrecking things. Two years ago, her older sister died in a tragic accident for which Evie can’t stop blaming herself. Ever since, she’s been set on a path of destruction. Not only has she broken up with…
I went into Held Against You expecting something edgy and a little different. A tattooed bounty hunter and his murder suspect love interest sounded like they could be an interesting pair. And they were, at first, but then minor irritances grew into major headaches and the wheels started coming off of the plotting. A nameless…
Oh, this one was so hard to grade! For the first half of the book, I was thrilled because it seemed that Bad Romeo by Liesa Rayven was going to be a solid DIK and a great start to my reading year. But then things began to slide downhill, and by the last page, my…
Do you enjoy watching people self-destruct while everyone around them tries to prevent it from happening? How about a hero who despises himself so much that he has an awful tattoo of the most gruesome moment from his past spread across his chest just to remind himself how terrible he is? And in case you…
As much as I enjoyed Cora Carmack’s first three books, I was totally avoiding the Rusk University series. First of all, New Adult is a very hit or miss genre for me. I like Carmack’s books but any others that I have read don’t do it for me. They tend to employ the same storylines…
Narrated by Loretta Rawlins and Nicholas Tecosky One of my biggest complaints about the New Adult genre is the sameness of the stories. If You Stay, Book 1 in the Beautifully Broken series, is a prime example of another author retelling the same old story, putting only the slightest of spins on it in an…
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