If you've ever wanted to read a book that puts a big ol' smile on your face, aka PERMAGRIN, this is the one you should grab right now. I absolutely LOVE Sariah Wilson's books. She always has great characters who are witty and spunky, down to earth, sassy, loving, forgiving, a good friend and so much more. This book had it all with these characters.
Zoe and her best friend Lexi are the biggest fans, and I mean, completely over the moon and creators of his fan club (well not really but you get the idea), biggest fans of Chase Covington. They know everything about him and have promised they would meet him someday. Zoe follows him on Twitter and even has her handle as a shout out to him. So when he tweets and asks for everyone's opinion on his latest movie (which by the way, according to Zoe was awful) she can't help but lay the honest truth at his feet. #you'vedonebetter. OUCH! Well, little did Zoe know that her complete honesty would lead to the most #amazing and #surreal experience of her life. Meeting Chase Covington. And let me tell you that their meeting was #heartpounding!
Can I just say that the use of Twitter in this book was so stinking fun! Every time I knew a tweet was coming (or didn't) I couldn't help but instantly smile. Instant reaction because every single one was so fun. #happy I kept reading reviews from friends who had an advanced copy and knowing that our tastes were pretty similar, it really made me very excited to read this book. I searched NetGalley and found it was available, instantly requested it and waited, and waited and waited. I don't usually go snag books on release day unless it's one I've been anticipating or a sequel in a series that I absolutely love. Well, I'm here to say that the night before I had pretty much decided I was going to go use the magical one click button and read this book. Woke up, started to clear out my email, and gave a little squeal. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..... I won the Goodreads giveaway for a kindle copy of this book!!!! *commence Carlton dance* The permagrin started long before I started reading the book my friends, long before. Then to make it even better, later that day I was granted a copy from NetGalley. Ha! As another friend said, I guess it was meant to be that I read this book. But even if I hadn't won or been given a copy, I would have snagged my own. That's how much I love Sariah's books! If you haven't read them and enjoy fantastically written humor and romance, stop reading this and do yourself a favor, go get it and enjoy the real thing and not my paltry ramblings for how good it is!
I want to start at the beginning and tell you EVERYTHING about this book, all those funny scenes, the butterfly inducing scenes, the swoony scenes. All of it! But I won't because the book is so much better than me trying to tell you all about it.
Their first meeting. Zoe's disbelief that it could even be real. I mean, come on, she's just an average (awesome) girl. He's like the most eligible bachelor and mega movie star of the world. Pssshhh, like he'd even notice her, especially after her tweet.
#whatwasshethinking? #thespiceisreal #needmesomecookies #sunscreenanyone #babysittingisthebestdateever #luvmesomeCHEESE #zomo #Ilovejeopardy
#littlehouseontheprairie #bestfriendsarethebest #truelove #eatfishtheyareyummy
I know, most of those probably make no sense, unless you've read the book. If you have, I am so calling you out on the smile I see on your face right now. Don't try to hide it, it's real. #PERMAGRIN This is definitely one of those books that I want to go back and reread right away and again and again and again. You get the idea.
Here's a couple quotes for your enjoyment and to pique your interest...
"I'm sorry I broke your friend," I told Chase. All I kept thinking about was that scene from Dirty Dancing where Baby was trying to act cool and impress Johnny and went to that party and blurted out, "I carried a watermelon!" and then beat herself up afterward for saying something so stupid. That was how I felt. It was my "I carried a watermelon" moment.
"Careful! Don't brand me with [the curling iron]." "You must really like this guy. I've never seen you so clumsy. You are completely and totally twitterpated." If only she knew how on the nose her proclamation was, given that Chase and I had met on Twitter.
I don't ever want to get you out of my system
I have so many more quotes but I just can't bring myself to share them because they'll spoil all the fun surprises you have waiting for you within the pages of this book. Seriously go read it, you'll thank me, but most importantly, you'll thank Sariah Wilson (and then quite possibly be hooked on her writing). Last thing before I end my review, I love Jeopardy and will never watch it again without #Starstruck running through my mind! #happycontentedsigh
Content: Clean. Zoe has a women's rights class and they talk about abstinence verses being free and having sex. Throughout the book Zoe talks about her choice to be abstinent until marriage while a couple other characters are not. Nothing graphic is discussed but there are some very mild innuendos scattered throughout the book. A couple spends the night together in the same room but nothing happens. Kissing and a couple make out scenes, but again nothing further than kissing.
My own personal copy I won through a Goodreads giveaway and a copy from the publisher, Montlake Romance, via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions in the review are my own.
Happy Reading!!!