Review: Hooked!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
When I started reading this, I didn't know what I was in for.Eighty-four pages of stomach-roiling angsty goodness. This novella packs quite a wallop from page one until the end. I was entertained from the get-go and intrigued by each character. Plus, there's an excerpt at the end for the next book and I almost cried reading it.Paige and Mitch were sweethearts. Mitch was in college miles away from Paige. I think it's quite obvious from the title and the blurb that something happened and these two characters are dealing with the fallout. Mitch thought Paige deliberately trapped him thus compromising his future. What follows is some of the best I've read in a while. I hated Mitch but at the same time I felt that because his background it's easy to see why he would feel that way. He is flawed, flawed, flawed. I wanted to junk-punch him. I wanted to shake him and knock some sense into him.Paige was a likable heroine, which was a pleasant surprise. NA heroines are often unlikable and whiny to me but Paige wasn't. She made a mistake, a lie of omission but she was never cruel nor manipulative. I loved how she stood up for herself. But they were both young and made a mistake that affected their future. That said I'm looking forward to how the story continues in the next book.I also really liked the dual POVs and almost all of the secondary characters. Beverley Kendall is a new author to me but I'm really glad I read this book.Anyone who is looking for some angsty drama might want to pick up this book. I can't wait for the next one!