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Saturday, 6 April 2013

A Review for Ten Days Of Perfect (November Blue #1) by Andrea Randall

Ten Days of Perfect (November Blue, #1)Posted by Jess
Release Date: September 20th, 2012
Finished Date: March 31st, 2013
Publishers: Self-Published
Source: For Review 
Format: Kindle 
Pages:  238
Buy: Amazon UK / Amazon US 

This is the first book in the November Blue series.

Scars from her first love and the reckless lifestyle of her parents force Ember Harris to chart a new course. 

She favors practicality over spontaneity and rules over a broken heart.

An encounter with a musician at a local pub forces Ember into making a decision to let go or hold on for dear life as passions are unlocked and deceptions revealed.

The Review: I was given this to review from Donna for the upcoming Reckless A blog tour. I was pretty excited to read it as the story sound great. 

I wasn't disappointed but I only enjoyed it to a certain extent. Overall the writing by Andrea Randall is wonderful, she really knows how to write a first kiss and hot musical boys. The story itself was interesting, and Bo our leading lad was swoony which is all I really great.

However as the story went on I came to dislike Ember, and at the end her reaction to the big reveal was over dramatic, and she is a total drama queen. Basing what happened on trust is silly, Bo didn't tell her to keep her safe, there's a difference Ember. To me, she seemed more immature and naive than a 26 year old should have been. Not only that, but this book is insta-love. Yup. I don't care for insta-love much. Even if Bo was fit as. Insta-love gives you nothing on relationship development and I find it very unrealistic. So yeah, not a fan of love at first sight. 

When I started reading I really was enjoying it, and then Ember got too much for me to handle and she became annoying. As far as her relationship with Bo goes, although it's insta-love, they are super good together, and the passion and love they feel is really brought out in the times they were together. Their sex scenes were steamy, but I find it hard to deal with love at first sight and then two souls connecting and becoming one when having sex. Meh, it just feel unrealistic.

Having said that, which I realise is more of a rant on November, the general story itself was well thought out and it developed well towards the end. Andrea Randall does have a way with words and can write really well. Ten Days Of Perfect is definitely worth a read, I don't deny that. But just prepare yourself for a whiny 26 year old, an story on insta-love and an anti-climatic ending. To be honest, if I didn't need to review book 2 for the blog tour, I would have put the book down after finishing it and not picking it up book 2 for some time. 

In conclusion, it's a cute story, with a swoony male (which holds up the entire book and is the only thing that keeps you reading), but lacks any sort of real climax, a bit of a whiny female lead, it is worth a read, but I personally wouldn't rush for it.

Friday, 5 April 2013

Blog Tour for Reckless Abandon (November Blue #2) by Andrea Randall; Review

Reckless Abandon (November Blue, #2)Posted by Jess
Release Date: March 8th, 2013
Finished Date: April 4th, 2013
Publishers: Self - Published 
Source: For Review - My Secret Romance Blog Tours
Format: Kindle
Pages:  Unknown
Buy: Amazon UK / Amazon US 

This is the second book in the November Blue series.

November Harris is lost. After a failed romance with musician Bo Cavanaugh, Ember is left struggling to regain her true self. The problem is, Bo won’t go away and Ember's stance is firm—she doesn't want him back.

Adrian Turner, Ember's ex-boyfriend-turned confidant, is patient with her heartbreak, but he can't hold back his own feelings forever. 

As she sorts through her past, in an effort to plan a solid future, Ember will find that sometimes even the best laid plans bow to the soul's desire for reckless abandon.

The Review: "His finger lifts my chin. "I'd follow you to the beginning of time, to the end of time, and back, November. Just say when." I grab his face and kiss him softly before pulling away. "When." -November and Bo

Well. It started off a little sketchy for me. I had a hard time trying to like Ember, some of the decisions she made in the last book pushed me over the edge and I was hoping there was no redemption ..I was wrong. I really enjoyed this one more than the first. It doesn't really have that '2nd book syndrome' like some books do. It's actually slightly better than the first, we get a glimpse into more Bo with a few pages written in his point of view, which I loved! I love duel points of view and it really worked in Reckless A because of the motions he and Ember were going through at the time. 

Andrea Randall most definitely has a way with words. Reckless A actually drew me in pretty quickly. It starts where Ten Days of Perfect ended and I was in a "I don't like you Ember" mood so I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get through it. Thankfully, I did. The story in this was really good, it flowed all the way through and although Ember did really frustrate me with pretty much everything she did I managed to overlook it because the writing was wonderful. I'm just going to touch on Bo a minute. He's still absolutely perfect, and I love him. He goes through so much in this book that I instantly fell for him all over again. Around the 72% mark Bo's world came crashing down and it is a punch to the gut for all his fans. I was sat on the train on my commute home when it happened and I had to restrain from ugly crying. So I settled for wet eyes instead. The situation although completely unfair, is handled extremely well by Andrea Randall that you feel it, all of it, along with the characters. Marvelous piece of writing.

Reckless Abandon is a fluid story filled with angst, love, unrequited love, betrayal, so much depth and a wonderful set of fabulous characters that will just leave you wanting so much more from them. It has a wonderful HEA which I can assure is the most welcome site after everything that happens in this book.

Although I did only give Ten Days of Perfect 3 stars (for my own reasons) I do love Andreas writing and her stories are fabulous that I will absolutely recommend this series to be read, and I will absolutely be reading many more books of hers. Providing she writes more HOT males ;)

A very solid 4 stars :)
Andrea RandallAuthor Bio: 
I started writing poetry long before writing fiction. I firmly believe Poetry is a solid foundation for all other forms of writing. It taught me that a single word can make or break the world. 
I write fiction because my characters have a story and they want me to tell it. 
I hope you enjoy the pieces of my soul that I share with you.
Twitter: ARandallAuthor
 
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