Title: Losing It (Losing It #1)
Author: Cora Carmack
Genre: New Adult
Publication Date: October 12, 2012
Synopsis:
Sick
of being the only virgin among her friends, Bliss Edwards decides the
best way to deal with the problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as
possible - a one-night stand. But her plan turns out to be anything but
simple when she freaks out and leaves a gorgeous guy alone and naked in
her bed with an excuse that no one with half-a-brain would ever
believe. And as if that weren't embarrassing enough, when she arrives
for her first class of her last college semester, she recognizes her new
theatre professor. She'd left him naked in her bed about 8 hours
earlier.
My Review:
As you may know, I mostly review Young Adult books on this blog, but I do read other genres. New Adult was still something I hadn't tried before. I've heard the voices are still very similar to YA, so I figured I'd get around to it one day. I gave it a try when I found this book for free online, but I really think that it wasn't the best book to introduce me to new adult.
For
some strange reason, I just couldn't take Bliss seriously. Yes, she's
twenty-two and in her senior year of college. I felt
like she was acting like a girl in middle school instead of someone who is about to graduate college and go into the real world. I get that she has
some issues about not wanting to leave college with her v-card in tact,
but to scheme with her friend just seemed unrealistic and insulting to
women.
Then there's the friend, Kelsey... She's supposed to be Bliss' best friend?
If you ask me, she's a pretty terrible one at times, especially the
beginning of the book. Like if you're really someone's best friend, you'll let them do things on their own... when they're really ready.
Oh... the man. His name is Garrick, and Bliss pretty much swoons for him as soon as she sees him reading Shakespeare in a bar, even though she tries to play it cool. Alright... now I love Shakespeare, but I would never, ever read his sonnets or plays in a bar. Garrick isn't actually a bad character, and I'd say that I tolerated him better than the rest of the characters, but even he didn't seem fully developed.
The rest of the friends in the book are pretty
static and boring. I felt like Cormack could have characterized them all
a little better to give the book a little more variety. It's like they all had the same personalities.
I don't know... I think this book could have
been a lot better if a little more thought was put into it. And a
little more editing. There were so many mistakes in it that I really
couldn't take it seriously. There were missing commas. There were commas
in places where they shouldn't have been. Oh, and what editor missed
"every once and a while" so many times? I know it was originally a self published book, but stuff like that really isn't that hard.
I'm glad I didn't pay for this book. I kind of enjoyed the plot, but there were just a few issues that bothered me.
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