Review: Smart and sexy, fun and flirty - a new, new adult favorite
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
Smart and Sexy - that is Sneaking Candy. Lisa Burstein has given us something delightfully different with her New Adult Romance. I'm a huge fan of Lisa's novels Pretty Amy and Dear Cassie, and now Sneaking Candy is added to my "favorites" list.How it's smart:Sneaking Candy is a book that I would have liked to read in an academic setting, possibly in my Popular Fiction class. With this novel, Lisa exposes the world of author hierarchy and prompts the discussion of who determines the value of literature. Is it the readers? Other writers? Does a wide fan-base equal success or does a book have to make it to a world-wide recognized best-seller list to be successful?How it's sexy:Sneaking Candy is filled with chemistry and tension between Candice and Professor Dylan and Candice and James and when Candy sneaks in there (pun intended), you better watch out because it gets all steamy. Naughty times! Oh James and your tight, white t-shirts, where have you been all my life?Sneaking Candy was a fun book to read with so many oh-my-goodness and laugh out loud moments. I liked reading how the main character saw herself separately as Candice, the grad student, writer, teaching assistant and as Candy, the naughty, impulsive, erotic romance author, and her recognition that she didn't have be two separate personalities. Reading Candice embrace her Candy side were some of the best moments of the book. And her roommate and friend Amanda, aka Mandy, was the perfect sidekick to Candice's Candy. That girl need her story told!I loved Sneaking Candy. If you are looking for something funny, fresh, smart, and sexy, then this is the book for you!