Review: Better than the first!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2013
**4.5 stars**Wow! Better than the first book in the Fenbrook Academy series! This author really stepped up to the plate!Now, I'm super picky about my new adult books. The book market is just inundated with this genre, which is basically angsty, sex-ed up, college age stories. They are very often crap, which always makes me wary to try them. However, this book really surprised me with how good it was.I'll try to break it down for everyone why I liked this story so much.1)This book has a sense of humor. Sometimes authors seem to take their book way too seriously. You aren't writing the freaking bible, people. This book doesn't, which I adored. The author mocked a lot of stereotypes in a fun, lighthearted way.2)The couple have real problems that don't magically go away. I was surprised to see that the couples from the first book are revisited here and we can see that their "happily ever afters" are not as straightforward as they originally appeared. The author wasn't afraid to show the characters as real, flawed people. It was pretty awesome.3)For a long book, the pace was good. Clocking in at over 400 pages, this book could have been super boring and draggy. However, I had no problem keeping my interest zeroed in on the story at hand.4)The author avoided easy outs. I kept waiting for the dreaded "miscommunications" and the like to crop up and spoil a good book. However, the author didn't use any of these tired plot tricks. **Praise the lord**5)It was HOT. Steamy writing, definitely geared to an adult audience. I, for one, appreciated the extra sex content!All in all, this book was a great read. I'll be on the look out for more books in this series, for sure.