Release Date: August 2, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 400
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, New Adult
*I received this book as a NetGalley ARC in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All opinions are my own. Thanks NetGalley!*
Summary
Model Finley needs someone to help her shed her "good girl" persona, so she'll try Eddie on for size.
New York City model Finley is fed up of hearing the same feedback at castings: she needs to take some serious action to wipe the "good girl" stamp from her resume if she wants to launch to stardom.
Enter Eddie Wells. He's shallow, predictable...and just as lost as Finley feels. Deep down, Finley is drawn to Eddie's bravado, his intensity. Except Eddie is hiding something. A big something. And when it surfaces, both loving and leaving Finley will become so much harder.
The Rundown
Oh boy. I really wanted to like this book. I'm a sucker for a good romance, but everything about this fell apart for me real quick. I didn't even get to the romance before I gave up (if a book is 400 pages long and at page 100 I ask "Why am I still reading this?" I'm done. Life is too short for a book that doesn't pull you in.)
Here's why I wanted to like it: New York City. Models. Haunted pasts. Two people coming together against the odds. From my brief stint trying to get into modeling in my younger days, I know it's hard work and not just pretty people posing for pictures. Well it is. But it's harder than that! Anyways, I was super excited to see how love and real life worked in a world I once dreamed of being a part of (other than Hogwarts, of course).
What I got was flat, predictable characters and almost nothing happening. One hundred pages in and I'm just waiting for something, anything, to hold my attention. Neither Finley nor Eddie held my interest enough for me to even care what the big mystery surrounding Eddie is.
My reading list is a mile long, and my ARCs in waiting seem even longer. I just didn't have time for this dud.
If you're looking for YA to NA contemporary romances that will make you swoon, check out Jennifer L. Armentrout (or her books she writes under J.Lynn), Cora Carmack, Katie McGarry, and Jay Crownover instead.
Sigh.
Rating: 2 Stars. Just not for me.
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