Molly McAdams’ book Forgiving Lies was my first foray into the New Adult genre. I hope it will not be my last because this book, while not entirely awful, did not make me want to venture any further into the New Adult world. Rachel Masters was in high school in California when her parents were…
New adult is an area I find hard to describe. Young adult novels cover coming of age stories, mostly in and around high school, sometimes early in college, where the main character is the same age as the target audience. New adult seems to cover the same basic idea, but the characters are graduating high…
I really liked this book. It’s quirky and different and so unlike most NA books, a fact that deserves a hearty round of applause in and of itself. Truly, I wanted to give Flat-Out Love DIK status so badly. But a handful of problems – while not ruining the story – were so problematic that…
Finding It is proof that, sometimes, a good book can make a bad initial impression. I’ll be honest, when I first started reading, I was groaning out loud at the thought of trying to finish this book. Kelsey came off as so obnoxious I really didn’t know how I would manage. When we meet Kelsey…
Every time I open a New Adult book I try to expect something unique. It’s true there’s a distinct formula that goes along with the genre, but whenever I start another book I try to forget about that formula and simply enjoy the book. Sometimes this works, and sometimes I find out that the story…
Pathos and bathos abound in this story of two college seniors whose backgrounds have stunted their growth. Blythe McGuire hasn’t let go of the nightmares associated with the death of her parents when their vacation home burned down. Chris Shepard and his three siblings have their own nightmares of the mental abuse meted out by…
I was a bit tentative about picking up Sabrina Elkins’ Stir Me Up because I knew it was about a girl who wanted to be a chef. While I LOVE to eat, I don’t love to cook and had no interest in reading about the minutia of food preparation. I needn’t have worried. Rather than…
Full confession. I chose this book based on this unintentionally erroneous description: “Heroine is a young movie starlet, and hero is the guy who knew her back before she was famous.” When I realized about halfway through the first chapter that The Gravity Between Us is, in fact, a love story about two females, I…
The answer of whether or not you will like Theresa Weir’s Come As You Are depends on how much escapism you need in a story versus your willingness to delve into a dark character study of girl with serious issues. You won’t smile a lot reading this book, but you will probably keep turning the…
I sometimes feel like I can describe the plot of all New Adult novels to you in one paragraph. Tattooed bad boy meets virginal college girl. There is sexual tension during all of their highly contrived run-ins but each of their troubled pasts keep them apart. Their otherwise pointless friends push them together until they…