Review: Best Book Yet!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
Phoebe Fairchild is going through a break-up. Her ex-boyfriend is a total jerk face. I would say more really bad things about him, but Amazon doesn’t allow bad words in their reviews. Just know he’s pretty bad. And I hate him.Anyways. Phoebe decides to transfer to NYU and accept an internship at NBC. She takes over her mother’s old apartment in New York City, excited to live on her own. You can learn more about Elizabeth Fairchild in book one, Ditching the Dream.When her job suddenly takes an unexpected turn, she ends up as Chase Smythe’s personal assistant. Chase Smythe is a television and movie star, a twenty-something heart-throb. He has a reputation as a playboy and drunk.After Phoebe makes a pact with herself that she will stay single all summer, she tries her hardest to resist the charm of Chase. Soon it gets hard, and she lets herself fall. But he’s an actor. She can’t decide if what he says to her is just a line or not.I want to say so much more about what happened in this book, but I’m afraid of spoiling it. There is so much more than what I gave you. This is probably the best book in the Dream series, the best book that Isabelle has written. That is my opinion and may be because the first two books revolved around older characters, and Phoebe is nineteen, the same age as me. I could really relate to her.Isabelle did an amazing job with this book! I could really feel the emotion and the chemistry between these two. With the small snippets of Chase’s point of view at the end of most chapters, I felt that I could really feel each of them.Isabelle is also very good with details. She describes the city beautifully. She describes the country perfectly. She can write really well. The way she can write so that the reader feels what she wants them to, is a wonderful gift for a writer to have.There is a traditional problem in this book that Phoebe faces. I can’t give you details. But her solution isn’t the traditional answer, which I like. I am so tired of reading the same thing over and over again and it ending the same way all the time. It’s refreshing and I like that.I also really loved seeing the two characters evolve over the course of the story. Yes, characters always change in books, well most of the time. But these two underwent a major transformation. They both grew up and handled things like adults. It took Phoebe a little while, though. You can’t blame her, she’s only nineteen.Five stars for Chasing the Dream, book three in the Dream series. I will stand by my opinion that this is Isabelle’s best book yet. I know you should take a chance on this one and fall in love! I know everybody loved books one and two because of the character’s ages; they weren’t the typical new adults you always read about. I know this is about a new adult, but this isn’t your typical story. Read it! You won’t regret it.