Pages - 213
Published by Piccadilly Press in December 2012, paperback published in April 2013
‘Mia,’ she says, pronouncing it to rhyme
with ‘higher’.
I think about correcting her, but then I
chicken out. It’s fine. I’ll just have a new name.
Goodreads Summary
When Mia
gets a job in a posh health/country club during her gap year, she is strikes up
a friendship with the laconic and funny Dan. Dan is also working in the club
and keeps Mia amused. However, she soon finds herself drawn to the wealthy bad
boy, Jamie. Jamie is the beautiful and privileged Cleo’s boyfriend. Mia knows
that her relationship with Jamie is wrong, but there’s something so dangerously
exciting about Jamie that she just can’t stop
Review
I’m always
intrigued by bloggers who have made the transition to authors so I really
wanted to read this book. This is
definitely a promising start for Liz Bankes. The book has come out as the right
time to capture the New Adult craze that is raging through the blogging world.
This is the first British author to write in the New Adult market, and I am
hoping a few more will follow suit. Set
in a hotel, I was quickly transported from the reality of winter to a sunny
summer setting. This really took me back, as the main character had a very similar
holiday job to the one I had as a teenager.
The main
plot of the book is the romance between Mia and Jamie and it is interesting to
see the changes in Jamie by the end of the book.
Mia is a
little too innocent for my liking and I struggled with the way she was so
easily fooled. I wanted to shake some
sense into her. She lies to everyone she knows and she couldn’t see that she
was doing anything wrong. I didn’t warm to Jamie or Cleo either as I found them
so shallow. They could have easily walked out of Cruel Intentions straight into
this novel.
This book
clearly shows the reality of the rich kids of today who have too much money and
often not enough love from their families. The author has captured how spoilt
and cruel they can be.
This book
was like the English version of 90210.
Fab review!!
ReplyDeleteI loved loved loved this book. :)
You loved it more than me. *sighs*
DeleteIt's a shame you didn't enjoy it as much. But it would be a boring world if we all liked the same books. :)
DeleteI wasn't that taken with the characters either & skimmed most of the book tbh I did like the ending though :)
ReplyDeleteIt is so hard when you don't like the characters. I just couldn't stand Jamie.
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