Review: Everything that's wrong with the "New Adult" sub-genre in one convenient place!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
I despise New Adult. Seriously. Why does it need to be a thing? It's angsty, whiny, mentally-stunted teenagers who have sex. Call it YA with sex cause that's all it is. Unfixable is no exception.Why did I read this if I hate NA so much, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. I like Tessa Bailey's other books. I loved "Protecting What's His" and I loved Willa's character in that book. So when I heard she had her own book (by the way, hats off to Entangled for packaging this series across two lines - Brazen and Embrace, too bad it's the last Embrace I will ever spend my hard earned pennies on!) I wanted to read it.Unfortunately, Willa lost her spark between Protecting What's His and Unfixable. She was snarky and funny in PWH. In Unfixable she is a selfish, annoying, whining mental case who mopes around Ireland with a camera. I assume the author wrote off her trip to Ireland as a business expense to write this book and I hope to god the IRS audits her as punishment for inflicting this angst-ridden mess on the general public.This book is all first person Willa. I used to hate first person POV, but I've grown to like it in some cases. It kind of works here, except that Willa is SO annoying. All of the conflict revolves around Willa. She's a bit of a raging self-involved nutjob honestly. And by her age she should really be at the point where she realizes the entire does not revolve around her whiny butt.The worst is that the story does not ring true for me. **SPOILER** Ginger has her baby early. Willa not only decides to stay in Ireland she goes globe-trotting to follow her now boyfriend around the race car circuit instead of going home to meet her niece!? WTF???? Ginger and Willa grew up in a terrible family situation with only each other to rely on. Ginger gave up a lot to take care of her younger sister. Willa repays her by not giving a crap that her sister just had a baby.No matter how good Shane's giving it to her, I found it impossible to believe Willa wouldn't at least go home to see her sister and niece for a few days. That sucked and it's when I got seriously annoyed that I wasted my time reading this mess.