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Mol Reads Books: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer` by Michelle Hodkin
Published by Simon & Schuster BFYR on September 27, 2011
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Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.


It can.


She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed.


There is.


She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.


She's wrong.

Confession: Sometimes I read books, then I want to talk about them. But I don’t want to write super formal reviews like I did when I first started blogging. I want my reviews to be fun and hopefully make YOU want to read the book. So…here goes! 

 

HOLY SHIZZ YOU GUYS. So WAY back in the day when I started blogging, I featured THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER in a Waiting On Wednesday post, and then I bought it shortly after it came out. From time to time, I’d see it sitting there on my bookshelf with its come-hither matte cover, practically screaming “Read me!” I’d think “I should read Mara Dyer, everyone talks about it and loves it, but *SIGH* I don’t have time.”

Y’all should have told me to MAKE time. 

I sat out in my yard in the fall on one of those last good, sunny days and I devoured this book in huge gulps at a time. Within the first few pages, I was hooked. I was…captivated. Shocked, interested. Whatever THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER was selling, I was buying. In bulk. I didn’t know what to think — all I knew was that I wanted to keep reading. Even if most of the time I was all

Michelle Hodkin, y’all. Michelle Hodkin. She destroyed me with her writing style, the lyricism yet the starkness to it, too, her ability to capture Mara’s fear and apprehension, her wonder at Noah, and her “voice” — authentically teen, never overbearing. 

Every time I thought I had my bearings with THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER, it threw me for a loop. Mara was somewhat unreliable from the start, but by the middle to end of this book, I had NO idea what was happening, who to trust, or even if I could trust *myself*, and I freakin’ LOVED IT. Every minute of it.

AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT NOAH.

 

This boy REDEFINED sexy. Like, I honestly felt a little guilty for crushing on Noah as hard as I did. But darn it, Noah and Mara’s chemistry was OFF the charts. Every interaction sizzled. If you’re looking for a fictional pairing that will make your heart pound, HEY-YO, look no further than Noah Shaw and Mara Dyer. Their sexual tension was WAY up there, even though most of their interactions weren’t THAT intimate, but damn if Noah didn’t make a look or a near-kiss make me wanna fan myself.

Oh and Noah…hey boy. Hey.

AS IF anyone still needs convincing, there are also some really great secondary characters, like Mara’s siblings (especially her nerdy older brother) and her parents (who are around and very genuine and awesome), and Jamie, one of her friends. We don’t see the parents that much in YA books (they’re usually dead or on a permanent vacation or Just Not Around), so I loved that Mara’s parents CARED.

The world-building (we need it even in a present day setting) was amazing. I really felt like I was in Florida with Mara, and not just in a touristy way. I felt like I could visualize the places she went, especially her school.

And the ATMOSPHERE. So so creepy. Michelle Hodkin knocked it out of the park with that aspect. Right away as I said, I was drawn in, but I was also legit creeped out a few times, and that never, ever happens reading a book.

TL;DR

Swoonage on a scale of 1-10: 10 10 10 10 10. For a book without any sex at all, I sure felt the sexual tension!

Reread eligible on a scale of 1-10: It won’t be for awhile, since I’ve read the whole series and know how it ends, but I’d love to reread this one some day. A 10.

Connection on a scale of 1-10: I’m a character driven reader, so even though Mara was an unreliable narrator, I loved her, which immediately made me connect with her. I felt for her, wanted her to get a happy ending. I’d say an 8 probably.

I heart it on a scale of 1-10: This isn’t just a scary story. There’s SO much heart and tension and even some really funny moments. I also loved all the love between Mara and her family.

Favorite Quote

“Fix me,” I commanded him. “This thing, what I’ve done – there’s something wrong with me, Noah. Fix it.”

Noah’s expression broke my heart as he brushed my hair from my face, and skimmed the line of my neck. “I can’t”

“Why not?” I asked, my voice threatening to crack.

“Because,” he said, “You’re not broken.”

 

 

Have you read any of the MARA DYER books? Did you love it/them? Hate? Can we swoon over Noah together?

Tuck #40th Blog Tour

I first read TUCK EVERLASTING in in 6th grade. I remember reading it really clearly, being swept into Winnie’s story, and being thrilled and scared at the prospect of living forever. It’s a question that’s haunted me since then, in other books, movies and television shows. There’s an incredible lure to it, and also an undercurrent of wonder and fear. What WOULD you do if you could live forever? What would I do if I could live forever?

This incredible book is turning 40, and MacMillan wants us all to celebrate the story Natalie Babbitt chose to tell with Winnie and Jesse and the Tucks. I know I’ve never forgotten it – I watched the 2002 film so many times I could recite lines.

Winnie has the choice to make: to grow old with this amazing boy and his family, or to live her life normally, but to live it WELL.

I’ve thought about her story so many times, and the truth is, if I lived forever, the choices would be unlimited. I could read every book I’ve wanted to read. Listen to all the music I haven’t heard. Get as many college degrees as I wanted. See this beautiful, huge world.

But would forever be TOO long? Would I WANT to live forever? That’s my fear. And I wouldn’t want to live forever unless I could be with my family and my friends, and they got in on the deal too. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be nearly as much as an adventure, even with Jesse at my side.

I keep coming back to one of the quotes from the book, one that’s stuck with me for a long, long time:

“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”

 Maybe that’s my answer.

So, would YOU want to live forever, or not? Have you read TUCK EVERLASTING? Did it make as big of an impression on you as it made on me? I’ve never forgotten the book or how I felt when I read it.

New Year, New Books and Whimsy

By now, I’ve established that 2014 was a weird year. Like, hella weird. I went on a blogging hiatus that turned into almost quitting blogging entirely. I had weird shifts in some friendships, and in some relationships. I read 29 3/4 books, which is way less than I’d read in several years. I was sad to not blog as much…but I was happier, most of the time.

My headspace was really weird, and I got stuck there a little too much. It was sort of like the Swamp of Sadness in there, especially when I thought of blogging. I’d try to blog, or visit YOUR blogs, and it…just didn’t happen. I WANTED to be “back” so bad, but I couldn’t be. But after awhile, especially after taking some time off of everything to just chill, I realized there was one way I felt about this funk:

 

So, now that we’re in 2015 (thankyoubabyjesus), I’m going to TRY to start blogging again, reading more YA, and talking about books – here, there, everywhere. I’ll also be, slowly, making my way to blogs to start commenting again. I have a lot of goals this year, and one of them is to be more of an active participant in the YA community, because YA is my first love, the category I always, always come back to.

So here’s a tentative idea of what I’ll be posting about here at BAW:

 

Monday: Review (And these won’t be super serious ones, you guys) and MAYBE sometimes a film review
Tuesday: Top Ten Tuesday (when I feel like I will be adding something to the topic)
Wednesday: Discussion Post (Probably one or two a month)
Thursday: Review (If I’ve read enough, because I’m so chill with my reading rn)
Friday: Writerly type post (Every so often)

And that’s it, really. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel or come up with a bunch of new memes. I might do a book haul every so often, and I might do a new installment of some of my older features like Becoming A Better Blogger, or Warm Up Reviews (just an excuse to review a book in gifs), but this is it for now.

Love y’all, and looking forward to being “back” soon!

 

Have you ever taken a hiatus that went longer than planned? Have you struggled to get back into blogging? Did you guys miss me? – XOXO, Mol

#WNDB: I Write Diverse Books – Here’s Why. (AKA Yes I Write LGBTQ Books)

There’s just enough hope when it shines

To go one scared step at a time

The amazing and brave Leah Raeder wrote a post the other day about her upcoming BLACK IRIS and I realized I needed to attempt to write my own, and talk about a few things I have planned for my books, as well as my philosophy for 2015 and beyond. I recently posted about the books I want to write and publish this year, but I wanted to do a separate post for another topic.

Books Aren’t Done – They’re Due

Probably the second best advice I’ve ever read, and one that has come to really resonate with me. I’ll probably elaborate on this more in a future post, but for now, suffice to say this is helping me realize that I can’t hold on to my books forever. I have to let them go eventually. I have to realize I’ve edited as much as I can, I’ve done the BEST that I can, at that time.

I have to let them go, even if it means some people will hate them. Some won’t connect with my characters, because I write realistic characters who make poor choices and are sometimes broken, and who don’t always do what’s expected of them. They have flaws, they curse, they’re sex-positive. They second-guess themselves or others. They take awhile to get the heck out of their own way. They learn and grow. I guess I write unlikable heroines. That? Is never going to change. Which leads me to…

 

Writing the Books I Believe In

Here is the crux of my post.

I love As You Turn Away more than I ever knew I could love a writing project, but I got in my own way a lot with it. It was my first book, and has some first book mistakes. The hardest thing I ever did was when I let go of it, knowing it was on its own. I never realistically expected all positive reactions, of course, but it was a new experience, getting to the point where I realized that even negative reviews are a blessing.

I have no designs to be famous. I just want to be read, because that truly IS a gift. Whether my books are for you or aren’t, if you give me a chance, you deserve mad love. 

So TL; DR: 2014 was what I made it. It was an incredible debut year. I learned a LOT. I realized I didn’t know much (nothing?) at all (Jon Snow.) It was a great year personally. It was a weird year personally. I made new author friends and reader friends. I lost a few friends. I published two books. Some folks loved both books, or just one. Some hated one or both. All of those reactions are totally valid and appreciated.

2014, I have one thing to say to you in terms of where my headspace was for too long:

 

2015 is for writing as much as I can. 

2015 is for challenging myself to grow as a writer, reader, person. 

2015 is for continuing to write character-driven books with more cute banter and thoughtful moments and feels. 

2015 is for writing the books that scare the shit out of me. 

2015 is for continuing to champion NA, while realizing that *my* NA does not have to be *your* NA, or yours or yours or yours, that it can be whatever we each want it to be. 

2015 is for celebrating small victories, for not obsessively checking my sales rankings, for making my Facebook reader group a fun place.

2015 is for firsts, mainly my first f/f romance. You’ll see me talking a lot about One Breath At a Time this year. It’s a standalone f/f book that, Dear God, I pray won’t get tragic on me. I think we NEED – and LGBTQ folks DESERVE – books where f/f romances or m/m turn out happily for a change. So yes, I’m writing a f/f NA book about being out in a small southern town and saying fuck the haters and girls kissing girls.

Five years ago, I couldn’t have written this book. Two+ years ago, I came out and realized I never wanted to go back to hiding who I was…and that if I can help others shine a light on who THEY ARE, I will. My family is not accepting of who I am. They do not accepting my relationship with my girlfriend. Teens, young adults, new adults, adults – no one should have to feel this way. It’s my goal to at least try to help even one person feel less alone and more accepted and loved.

So here’s the truth…

All of my books from now on will be diverse, and not in a “I used a checklist to make them that way,” but in a “This comes from my heart to yours” way. I won’t get in my own way anymore. I won’t be scared to write the kind of books that could have helped teen me. 

Maybe that diversity will come in the form of LGBTQ characters. I’m bisexual, and it’s important for me to represent that in my books. To write about bi girls and lesbian girls, bi boys, and gay boys. To break the stereotype that you can’t know you’re gay/bi/etc if you haven’t been in a same sex relationship. To write them kissing and banging and being cute and happy together. To write their relationships and beautiful and normal. To NOT fade to black, to reinforce the idea that ALL sex can be beautiful and positive, and NOT just hetero sex.

That diversity may come in the form of disabled characters. I have plans for a 2016 (maybe 2015 if I can get to it) book featuring a disabled, kickass redhaired MC.

That diversity may be characters who are POC. I’m scared to write this, just like I’m scared to write a disabled character, but I’ll do my research and try my hardest to fairly and accurately represent POC characters, because they deserve that.

I can’t promise I’ll get any faster at writing books, or that you guys will love every single one of them. I can’t promise I’ll ever write what’s expected from the category I write in. I can’t promise I’ll always only write NA (more on that soon.)

I CAN promise: banter, feels, (much) masturbation, girls kissing girls, guys kissing guys, unlikable heroines, character growth, Southern-isms, oversharing, flirting, sex-positive girls and guys, a road trip book, interracial relationships, a baseball book, positive/supportive friendships that involve dance parties, characters meeting in the same place when it comes to power in the relationships, and much, much more. 

 

So, are y’all coming on this ride with me? I sure hope so.

2015 and Beyond

Hi lovelies, hi! I hope everyone is having an amazing month so far.

Curious what I’ll be working on this year? Find out here! Click the anchors to jump to the corresponding part of the post.

 

 

As We Fall TogetherAs You Breathe AgainOne Breath At A Time>2015 Philosophy and Beyond
As We Fall Together

I wouldn’t call my first book (As You Turn Away) the book of my heart, because that title goes to a book that exists only in my mind and scares the hell out of me, but AYTA was fairly close. It’s my first book, and it will always have a special place in my heart. Getting to write about Jonah and Quinn again, realizing their story wasn’t entirely finished, really has meant a great deal to me. I have a lot of thoughts for their novella, and am about to start writing like the wind to get this story in the hands of my readers this spring.

 

As You Breathe Again

I’ve tried to start Reece’s book twice now – once right after I finished AS You Turn Away, and once after I finished One Song Away. Both times, I realized I was a) rushing things and b) trying to write the wrong sort of book. Reece is a thoughtful guy with a huge heart, and even though I could have had *a* book written for him by now, it wouldn’t be the *right* book. Please, to my readers, understand I want to write Reece’s book and do it justice, because I adore him so much, and sinceriously hope you will, too.

With Reece, I can promise more Jamie (since y’all seemed to love him in AYTA), a heroine who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to grab ahold of it, small town shenanigans, an interracial couple, and more fun. Publication is tentatively set for summer 2015. 

 

One Breath At a Time

If you’ve read One Song Away, you’ve met Sloane Delgado. Sloane is a runner, a kickass bestie to Sophie-Claire, and a lesbian. I’m tentatively planning to write and release Sloane’s book in the winter of 2015, because gay girls deserve HEAs, too. Sure, at some point, I’ll get to one of the sadder LGBTQ ideas that are rolling around in my head, but for right now, I want to write a girl/girl book that doesn’t end in tragedy, because that’s played out.

One Breath At a Time won’t be my first time writing a f/f romance, but it will be my first published one. I know who Sloane’s HEA is with, and I know most of the journey these women will go on together. I know there will be kissing and more, no fade to blacks, self-love, friendship, dancing, and growth.  I’ll start talking more about OBAAT when I’m closer to writing it, but please know that along with supporting diversity in books, I also plan on writing it.

 

Eyes On Your Own Paper

 This is probably the best advice that I’ve ever seen. I adopted it late last year and have been trying to follow it in all aspects of my life: in my friendships, in my writing, in my relationships, in my online dealings. I spent WAY WAY too much time in 2014 in an unhealthy pattern of comparing my successes and failures to others, wondering what worked for them that didn’t for me, and just generally not liking some of my behaviors. I took December off of EVERYTHING basically, in order to reboot and change some things.

2015 is for embracing my positivity in all things. If y’all see me making an extra effort to tweet or FB positive quotes and pics, it’s for you AND for me.  I’m much happier already and hope to continue this pattern.  Less time checking sales ranking, more time talking about other people’s books and writing my own. 

 

I hope you’ll continue to check out my books in 2015, and continue to email me (molliwrites @ gmail dot com) or tweet me (@MissMolliWrites) if you enjoy them (or even if you don’t, we can totally still be friends). Nothing warms my heart and makes me do a happy dance more than connecting with readers!

Blog Tour: The Boy Next Door by Katie Van Ark

Hi lovelies! Have you heard of THE BOY NEXT DOOR by Katie Van Ark, out now from Swoon Reads? No?! Well, sit back, get comfy, and let me tell you a bit about this lovely, fun book – then stick around to read a post from the author herself!

Maddy Spier has been in love with the boy next door forever. As his figure skating partner she spends time in his arms every day. But she’s also seen his arms around other girls—lots of other girls.

Gabe can’t imagine skating with anyone but Maddy, and together they have a real chance at winning some serious gold medals. So, he’s determined to keep thinking of her like a sister. After all, he’s never had a romantic relationship that lasted for more than two weeks.

But when their coach assigns a new romantic skating program, everything changes. Will this be the big break that Maddy’s been hoping for or the big breakup that Gabe has always feared?

Purchase: At Amazon | At Barnes & Noble 

Friends to Feelings

           I love these friends-to-more books as well, because that’s my own love story. I married my best friend, with much thanks to our tenth grade biology teacher’s insistence on alphabetical seating.

           When I started tenth grade, I actually had a huge crush on a different guy who was also in our biology class. It was the embarrassing kind of crush where you send anonymous love notes – yes, I did that and I hope he threw them out!  Due to the good old ABCs, though, my crush was placed all the way across the room from me and my future husband was just across the aisle and one seat up, right in front of my view of the clock. Nicely done, fate.

           In high school I was the shy and studious type. My husband was very outgoing and loved to talk. Since the girl who was supposed to sit in front of me cut class ninety percent of the time, no one else sat by us. He slowly drew me out of my shell and we became friends.

           By the end of the first semester, I’d realized my crush-across-the-room wasn’t what I was looking for in a boyfriend anyway and that maybe what I’d wanted all along was literally (in biology class, anyway) right in front of my face. But it was scary to think about going out with a friend. If it didn’t work out, I didn’t think we’d be able to be friends anymore. I wouldn’t even tell my mother how I was starting to feel – I called him “Gil” in conversation, short for “guy I like.” But at the end of the year we finally decided to go for it and ultimately our friendship helped us through all those awkward first dating moments. Now it continues to help us keep our marriage strong.

 

Thanks so much to Katie for stopping by the blog today. Have you read THE BOY NEXT DOOR? Do you plan to? I love YA contemporary romances, especially about friends-to-more so I’m hoping to love this one.

Top Ten Tuesday – The One With My Christmas List

 

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted at The Broke and the Bookish!

This week’s topic is: Top Ten Books I Wouldn’t Mind Santa Bringing This Year

Welp, this is awkward. See, I tend to just…buy myself most of the books I want. Lawl, so compiling this list was a bit of a challenge, BUT there are some I haven’t been able to splurge on / ARCs I didn’t request and now wish I had. Be sure to leave me a comment so I can check out YOUR TTT.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. I can probably still request this one but I wish I had it NOW.
The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall. It comes out soon, but again, NEED IT NOW.
Landline by Rainbow Rowell. I loved Fangirl, so I’ve been meaning to read Landline!
Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid. I’ve heard such great things about it, and gotten some recs from other bloggers. Sounds great!
Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang. I keep hearing this one is super emotional and well-written and just all around amazing.
Tonight the Streets Are Ours by Leila Sales. LEILA. SALES. It’s so so so far away. How am I supposed to wait for fall 2015?
The gorgeous newer Harry Potter box set. My paperbacks are a bit worn, so I need/want a replacement set, but if I had the newer one, I’d probably just leave it alone and gaze lovingly at it…
This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. I LOVED the first book, so I can’t wait to have the extra cash to splurge on this one.
Every Breath by Ellie Marney. Because someone said SHERLOCK INSPIRED and I’ve been pining for it ever since.
Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi. So I can FINALLY finish the series, SMH. I hate when I fall so behind on a book series I’ve loved!

 

That’s it for me. What books would YOU want Santa to bring you?

 

The One with the One Song Away Blog Tour + Giveaway

In case you somehow missed it, between my failing and such, my book is on tour this week! Giselle is hosting the ONE SONG AWAY blog tour. There are reviews, guest posts, excerpts, a Top 10 list, and a pretty sweet giveaway, if I do say so myself.

 

Follow the tour!

December 15th

-Book Bitches Blog >> Review
-Becky on Books >> Review
-A Little Bit of R&R >> Excerpt
-Fic Central >> Review

December 16th
-Books of Love >> Review
-Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile >> Review
-Girls With Books >> Excerpt

December 17th
-Word Spelunking >> Interview
-Lustful Literature >> Review
-Thoughts At One In The Morning >> Review

December 18th
-What’s Beyond Forks? >> Review + Top 10 List
-Sizzle and Swoon >> Playlist
-A Backwards Story >> Review

December 19th
-YA Story Teller >> Excerpt
-I’m A Book Shark >> Guest Post
-Loving the Language of Literacy >> Excerpt
-Ramblings From This Chick >> Review

The prizes up for grabs are:

1 $25 Amazon or B&N Gift card
5 e-book copies of ONE SONG AWAY
2 swag packs (open internationaly)

 

The swag packs are pretty swanky too…

 

 

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE.

The “I’m a Rebel” Campaign

So here’s the sitch: in One Song Away, the main character, Sophie is a bit of a rebel. She cares about what her loved ones think about her, but she’s also gonna do her, live her life on her own terms, have fun, and ignore the strange looks she gets along the way.

To win a prize pack (iTunes gift card + other writerly/reader fun things!) tell me on Twitter OR on my author FB page what you’ve done that’s rebellious, a la Sophie, with the hashtag #ImARebel. I’ll draw for the winner after the tour.

 

Blog Tour: Review: Little White Lies by Katie Dale

I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Little White Lies by Katie Dale
Published by Delacorte on December 9, 2014
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Source: Galley from the publisher

Fans of Pretty Little Liars will be ensnared in this tale of deceit.


The first time Lou meets mysterious Christian, she knows he is The One. But Christian is hiding a terrible secret. Why does he clam up every time Lou asks about his past? Why doesn’t he have any family photos, and why does he dye his blond hair black? When Christian’s house goes up in flames, his tires are slashed, and he flees for his life, Lou insists on going with him. But as Christian’s secret is unveiled in front of the whole world, it seems everything he’s ever told Lou is a lie. Can what the media are saying about him really be true? Should Lou trust him? Or is she in grave danger? And what if their accidental meeting wasn’t an accident at all...?

I’m thrilled to be on the Little White Lies blog tour, hosted by the awesome Delacorte folks. Read on for my review of Katie Dale’s book!

 

I hadn’t read anything by Katie Dale before Little White Lies, so I went in with no expectations, and found myself really enjoying Dale’s book. It’s a fast-paced, thrilling YA mystery, full of twists and turns I can’t say I saw coming.

Little White Lies introduced us to a diverse and interesting cast of characters: Lou, a college student trying to start over, Vix, budding reporter, Kenny, computer hacker with ties to Lou, and Christian: a mystery wrapped in an enigma. I really liked the characters, their interactions, the questions those interactions raised, and the way Katie Dale drew everyone and everything together. Lou’s narraration was almost a bit unreliable at times, given her circumstances, and that was a good choice, too. You never really knew what was going on entirely.

As I mentioned, Little White Lies is fast-paced, which was a good choice for this story. I wasn’t bored, and was able to read Dale’s story quickly, without any lags. I read it in one sitting, because I wanted to know what was at the heart of the mystery.

I also liked that Little White Lies manages to ask some important questions about family, friendship, and who we are on the surface. There was some great social commentary under the main story. I would definitely read another book by Katie Dale.

Last Will and Testament by Dahlia Adler Release Blitz

 

The fabulous Dahlia Adler (blogger, author, YA rec-ing ball) has a New Adult contemporary romance out today. If you haven’t heard of LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, let me fix that right now.

 

Lizzie Brandt was valedictorian of her high school class, but at Radleigh University, all she’s acing are partying and hooking up with the wrong guys. But all that changes when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, making her guardian to her two younger brothers. To keep them out of foster care, she’ll have to fix up her image, her life, and her GPA—fast. Too bad the only person on campus she can go to for help is her humorless, pedantic Byzantine History TA, Connor Lawson, who isn’t exactly Lizzie’s biggest fan.

But Connor surprises her. Not only is he a great tutor, but he’s also a pretty great babysitter. And chauffeur. And listener. And he understands exactly what it’s like to be on your own before you’re ready. Before long, Lizzie realizes having a responsible-adult type around has its perks… and that she’d like to do some rather irresponsible (but considerably adult) things with him as well. Good thing he’s not the kind of guy who’d ever reciprocate.

Until he does.

Until they turn into far more than teacher and student.

Until the relationship that helped put their lives back together threatens everything they both have left.

 

Purchase: Amazon | B&N | iBooks | Smashwords | Kobo

Add to your TBR: Goodreads

 

I’ve already read a good part of Dahlia’s book and let me tell you guys, you’re in for a treat. Dahlia is really passionate about New Adult books, and it shows. Make sure to snag a copy of her book, and be sure to check out her debut, BEHIND THE SCENES, as well!