Review: Shredded - 4.5 Stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
It’s official! I’m never going to get tired of the tattooed, bad boy with enough baggage to fill up an airport. Shredded is such an emotional roller coaster and I loved every minute of it! Z is your typical play boy. He has it all: the money, the gorgeous looks, literally any girl he’s ever wanted and he just so happens to be one of the best snowboarders in the world! On the outside that is, on the inside he died 11 years ago when tragedy rocked his world. Ophelia had to get away after her own tragic story. She’s definitely not looking for anything when she moves to Park City except to start over. Their story is so heartbreakingly intense and I could not put it down!This is your pretty typical new adult novel, but if you love new adult like I do, it won’t be a problem! Tracy Wolff does an amazing job describing these characters! I knew I was going to love Ophelia from the moment the cafe scene happened! And I loved Z that moment too because he could have gone crazy on her, instead he smiled, a real smile. I knew right then I was going to enjoy the story. I loved Z’s circle of friends: Ash, Luc and Cam. Well maybe not Cam as much because you know she’s trying to get between Ophelia and Z’s relationship, but I definitely have mad respect for her loyalty! She puts her own feelings aside throughout the entire book.The one important question that I have is what does Z stand for?!? I kept waiting and waiting for Ophelia to ask, but she never did! I’m pretty sure that would be the first thing I asked him! Ha!My only critiques of the book are: 1. ‘Instalove’ is fine, and I get that it’s necessary in some cases because it is only a book and they can’t all be 1,000 pages, but it’s so unrealistic to me that 2 people as ‘shredded’ as Ophelia and Z were can fall in love in a week. Some people love ‘instalove’ I just don’t happen to be one of them. 2. there were way to many of these: too-gorgeous-for-his-own-or-anyone-else’s-good. There was at least one on every page for like the first 50 pages and it was slightly annoying.But overall I give it 4 stars! It was a great read that will make you happy, then you will cry, then you will get angry, then you will swoon and then hit repeat! :)AND HOLY TERRIBLY SAD CLIFFHANGER!!!!