Review: Get ready for the greatest book hangover of all time!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2014
I love to be surprised while reading, when an author can genuinely shock me, I’m in love.  Erin Noelle has been able to do so with each of the three books in the Book Boyfriend series and in Euphoria I was utterly, jaw-droppingly, floored.  Add in a healthy dose of emotion and turmoil and you have the perfect storm culminating in a completely fitting, heartbreakingly beautiful ending to the series.I know that there are a lot of readers out there that will condemn what transpired in this book because they prefer everything wrapped up in a nice, pretty, predictable little bow.  I understand this way of thinking when viewing reading as an escape or a diversion. I, on the other hand, have to commend Erin Noelle for having the cojones to go THERE when so much more can be gained not merely from shock value but in the growth and development of the characters and their story.  I personally found the bombshell refreshing in that it is real, something that so many people have to deal with on a daily basis, it is unexpected, as life usually is, and it is different from what we routinely see in book after book.Along these lines the introduction of two new characters in this book I found just as original.  In many of the books in this genre when a new secondary character is introduced it is often as a love interest.  When both Heather and Andi were integrated into Mason’s story I thought for sure they would be for a similar purpose. Instead these characters were incorporated as sources of strength and support as well as opportunities for growth and as important influences in the journey.Don’t get me wrong, I was as flabbergasted as the next person.  I actually reread a portion of what I had just read to be sure that that actually happened.  The circumstances were completely brutal and outright devastating, there’s angst and then there is agony, but the outcome and everything that happened afterward was well thought out, extremely poignant, incredibly touching, and remarkably beautiful.Whether you agree with the circumstances or not I think it is hard to deny the effects on Scarlett and her journey of self-discovery and self-love leading her to a place where she can finally experience not just bliss in one aspect of her life but her true Euphoria.  This book was the perfect unanticipated ending to her story and the series as a whole.