Review: Good Start To a Series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2013
This is going to be such a hard book to review and to rate mainly because there were so many things I liked about it and some that I didn't. I will say this though, I was prepared to rate this differently until I got to the last chapter and the epilogue. I know, I know, that just sounds weird but it is true. Scarlet grew so much in that last few chapters that it totally turned my thoughts about the whole book around. And then the epilogue, well that turned my whole view of a certain someone completely around as well, like 360 around.So what to say without giving way too much away? This book is full of really great characters. Some steamy hot boys for sure. A good boy, a bad boy (yum!) and a.....well, actually another bad boy of sorts but in a different way. A playboy if you will. All of them fabulous and all of them could have been good for Scarlett in different ways but one, one stole my heart. Mason. Yes Mason. I liked him from the get go. There is just something about a bad boy that is just hard to resist and apparently they are my kryptonite in books. I can't help but love them, even when I shouldn't.Now on to what bothered me about this book. The language. Yes I know this is NA but really, were all those bad words (and dirty words) necessary? I am not a prude by any means but I really think this book could have been cleaned up just a little and still been a fabulous story without losing any of the essence that author was trying to portray along the way.Also Scarlett. Why I loved her, some of the things she did and said went totally against the innocent girl persona she was suppose to have. I know she was letting lose and living it up but really, I don't think Scarlet was really all that innocent, at least not in her thoughts (okay really are most of us innocent in our thoughts?) and what came out of her mouth. I think I would have liked her just a bit more if she would of acted a whole lot more like the person she was suppose to be in this one and not the contradiction she turned out to be.I did like all the book boyfriend references throughout the story. It was fun hearing about books that most of us have either read ourselves and loved or at least know about. It was kind of a cute addition to the storyline and I especially liked the Travis reference there at the end being a huge Travis fan myself.Overall I think this was a really good debut novel for Erin and I know that I will read the sequel (and hopefully not get my heart broken over the ending) and I truly think the author has a lot of potential. Really what I didn't like in this or what bothered me was very minor and easily looked over for the overall "good stuff" that was in the storyline. I think a lot happened in the last 20% that really flipped the plot around and made it stand out and become something real.I know the sequel will only be better and I really look forward to reading more about Ash, Scarlett and Mason.