Author: A.E. Woodward
Published: June 19th 2013
Format: eBook | Pages: 325
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Source: ARC provided for blog tour
★★★★★ (5/5) Stars!
Emma, Tyler and Shane have been best friends since they were kids. Along with their college addition, Rob, the four friends have an exciting life in NYC. In fact, Emma Sloan appears to have it all.
Despite being happy with her current situation, a big family announcement leaves Emma questioning whether she is truly content with her life. With her thirtieth birthday fast approaching she vows to find her 'perfect' man any way she can. But Emma will soon discover that the path of true love never runs smoothly and that sometimes, instead of chasing love, you have to wait for love to find you...
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
It didn't take me long to fall in love with this book or it's characters. The four friends had such a fun and interesting dynamic. It only took a couple of pages to have me laughing out loud. I was instantly hooked and couldn't put it down, well until I had dropped my Kindle on my head a couple of times dozing off! It's been a while since I've been as in to a book as I was this one.
Emma was such a great character, she's smart and snarky. She has a great job. Lives a condo in New York with her 3 best friends Shane, Tyler and Rob (lucky girl). She comes from a perfect family, with a mother who constantly drilled into her and her sister the importance of maintaining the perfect image, perfect hair, perfect makeup, perfect clothes, perfect friends, relationships...so you can't really blame her for rebelling most of her life. Her mother and sister can't stand the way she lives her life, she's almost 30 and she's living like a college student, she should settle get married, settle down, quit her job, raise a family. But Emma is perfectly happy with her life the way it is.
She goes home for her parents anniversary and her baby sister makes an announcement that sends Emma reeling with emotions and a twinge of jealousy that she never expected. It makes her take a step back and reevaluate her life and see that maybe she's not as happy with the way things are as she thought she was. On the plane ride home she formulates a plan, with only 8 months until her birthday she wants to try to find Mr. Right by the time she's 30 and be that much closer to the perfect life and perfect family her mom and sister are pressuring her to have.
This book proved that you can have an adult or new adult novel and have it be all about the love story and the romance and not be filled with sex, sex, sex. It was about the characters and the emotions. Their ups and downs on the way to find their happiness. It's always such a refreshing change. Don't get me wrong I enjoy my steamy novels like the rest of you, it's just a nice change of pace sometimes.
It had me engaged from start to finish and ended all too soon. I fell in love with each one of these characters and I was so sad to see this story come to an end. But I can't wait for the rest of the series to come out and delve deeper into the hearts of the other guys and see them find their happiness as well. I highly recommend this heartwarming love story!
About the author:
A.E. Woodward lives in Vacationland with her husband and two children. Between her day job and the pursuance of a master’s degree, she wrote her first novel. Her novel Imperfectly Perfect, will be the first book in A Series of Imperfections.
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Great review, doll! So happy you loved it so much I love it when you can thoroughly connect with the character and grow to love them like this! This book is right up my alley! :)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like my type of book! It's relevant to my situation too, almost 30 and still single and in a few weeks time...30 and still single lol I like that it's more romantic that smutty too! Gonna check this one out. Great review hon x
ReplyDeleteThis cover is so cute. Sounds like a great book. Adding to my TBR!
ReplyDeleteSo nice to read books with slightly older main characters sometimes and one of my favourite things in books is strong friendships. Sounds great, adding to the list.
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