Lazy Review: Kicked by Celia Aaron

Title: Kicked

Author: Celia Aaron
Genre: New Adult/College Romance
Rating: 4 Lazy Books


Synopsis:

Trent Carrington.
Trent Mr. Perfect-Has-Everyone-Fooled Carrington.

He’s the star quarterback, university scholar, and happens to be the sexiest man I’ve ever seen. He shines at any angle, and especially under the Saturday night stadium lights where I watch him from the sidelines. But I know the real him, the one who broke my heart and pretended I didn’t exist for the past two years.

I’m the third-string kicker, the only woman on the team and nothing better than a mascot. Until I’m not. Until I get my chance to earn a full scholarship and join the team as first-string.

The only way I'll make the cut is to accept help from the one man I swore never to trust again. The problem is, with each stolen glance and lingering touch, I begin to realize that trusting Trent isn’t the problem. It’s that I can’t trust myself when I’m around him.

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” 

― Gustave Flaubert

Lazy Review: Perfectly Toxic (The Sterling Shore Series Book 9) by C.M. Owens

Title: Perfectly Toxic (The Sterling Shore Series Book 9)

Author: C.M. Owens
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Rating: 5 Lazy Books


Synopsis:

BELLA

New life. New job. New home. New goals...
I vowed to make drastic changes and to never fall back into old habits. But then Ethan Noles showed up and blew all my good intentions to hell. I should have stayed away. I shouldn't have played his game.

But I did.
Now I just hope I don't regret it.

ETHAN

Bella is the type of girl you can't help but chase, because she doesn't want to be caught. I came back ready to live and enjoy life. Not to get tethered to a girl. But... shit happens. Bella happens. And everything I thought I wanted slowly changes.

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.” 

― P. L. Travers

Lazy Review: The Boys of Summer (Book # 1 The Summer Series) by C.J. Duggan

Title: The Boys of Summer (Book # 1 The Summer Series)

Author: C.J. Duggan
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.5 Lazy Books


Synopsis:

It seemed only natural to nickname them the ‘Onslow Boys’. Every time they swaggered in the front door of the Onslow Hotel after a hard week’s work, their laughter was loud and genuine as they settled onto their bar stools. I peeked through the restaurant partition, a flimsy divider between my world and theirs. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw them, saw him ... Toby Morrison.

Quiet seventeen-year-old Tess doesn’t relish the thought of a summertime job. She wants nothing more than to forget the past haunts of high school and have fun with her best friends before the dreaded Year Twelve begins.

To Tess, summer is when everything happens: riding bikes down to the lake, watching the fireworks at the Onslow Show and water bomb fights at the sweltering Sunday markets.

How did she let her friends talk her into working?

After first-shift disasters, rude, wealthy tourists and a taunting ex-boyfriend, Tess is convinced nothing good can come of working her summer away. However, Tess finds unlikely allies in a group of locals dubbed ‘The Onslow Boys’, who are old enough to drive cars, drink beer and not worry about curfews. Tess’s summer of working expands her world with a series of first times with new friends, forbidden love and heartbreaking chaos.

All with the one boy she has never been able to forget.

It will be a summer she will always remember.

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.” 

― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides