Review: Really liked it
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
This book was a great next book for me. I had just finished a more serious story and this one was light (there were some heavy scenes) and swoon worthy.Make Me is about Paisley Vaughn and her Cinderella story. The beginning of the book has her living in a trailer park with her druggy mom and her baby sister she has to take care of all the while going to high school. After coming home and finding her mom has OD’d, she is shipped off to her maternal grandmother’s house. Paisley’s grandparents are loaded and she finds out that she too has more money then she knows what to do with.I REALLY like Paisley. Some teenager characters can be very annoying but she was level headed, smart and sassy. She was the kind of girl I would want to be friends with in high school.The hero in this book is Channing Southerland. He is best friends with Paisley’s new cousins. They are thrown together quite a bit. Channing keeps his face blank and his emotions in check. But Paisley can see all his emotions in his eyes. These two don’t like each other on first but they are explosive together. You can feel their sexual tension while they were at war with each other.“It was like one day I hated him and then next I still hated him, but now I want to jump his bones.”Once Channing and Paisley got it together, I was swooning all over. He took care of her when she was sick, he wrote her a poem.“Make me Channing. Make me fall. Push me, shove me, just make sure I get there”.“’I’ll make you’. His hips skim against mine as he continues to speak. ‘And I’ll be falling right there with you.’”Amanda Heath also gave us great supporting characters. Paisley’s cousins Brody and Kellan are great. Her best friend Rachael and her twin brother Royal also best friend to Channing bring a level of reality to the book. The group of friends was very complete and fun. I look forward to some of their books.As much as I liked this book and I did like it, there were two things that I struggled with. One of them being the close and complicated relation Channing and Paisley had to one another. Channing’s adopted step father was Paisley’s uncle. At times it was confusing who all was connected to whom. The Southerland Family and the Vaughn family were much intertwined making it sometime difficult. My other issue was the editing. The story held its own but there were a lot of misspelled words that became distracting at time.I was given an arc for an honest review for mean girls luv books