Grounding Quinn by Steph Campbelle → Start Date: March 19, 2013

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Please feel free to join in with Alexa and I for this buddy read!

[Alexa]

I'm so excited :D

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

me toooo!!! :D

[Alexa]

this one is tomorrow :D, I'm starting Wither tomorrow too and I'm guessing you're also reading other books, so how should we do this?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I am reading other books, but I'm pretty open. do you want to kick it out a day and start Wednesday??

I'm good either way :D

[Alexa]

Nooooo noo!! I don't mind starting two buddy reads, it's like reading two books at once - I'm just going to hold off different hours at the day for each, plus I've been waiting to read this since February 24th LOL!

How many chapters would be good?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

wow 56 chapters
but it looks like it's only about 250 pages.

I'm pretty open. how much do you want to read?

[Alexa]

Well if they're short is 20 chapters too much?
and then we could do on Wednesday another 20 and the last 16 on Thursday?

Let me know if you want to take it slower, I don't mind :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

sounds perfect!

20 chapters tomorrow!
i'll check back in about every 5-10 chapters :)

[Alexa]

I'm glad you like it! And sure, I'll do the same =)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I'm going to read Delicate first today (I didn't realize it was the prequal to this one!?!?!), and then I will get to this one

so I'll be reading this one later today :) I can't wait!!!

[Alexa]

Oh, I'll read it after I read the first 20 for this one. I'm starting now though - I'll pop back in after 5-10 chapters

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Oh, okay, I'll read this one first then too!!

and then we can read Delicate :D

[Alexa]

Delicate is about Sydney, we're going to meet her later in the book I think. She's a friend of Quinn's apparently, so lets read that one later :)

LOL!! “His voice has a deep, raspy quality to it that is muy delicioso!” I'm liking her descriptions of Ben so far :D

[Alexa]

I just finished 5 chapters!! Is it just me or is it really fast-paced?!

And the story of her parents :(...
but the last sentence in chapter 5, what is it supposed to mean?.........(view spoiler)[“This is most definitely not part of The Plan.” (hide spoiler)]

[Alexa]

uhm chapter 10...(view spoiler)[She was totally checking that Mark guy out? "Made of sexy-sauce"? "Thick biceps (win!)"? err what.. LOL. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay lol sorry got distracted cleaning house and then finished up another book

NOW I'm starting! :) I'll catch up!

[Alexa]

Don't worry!!

this is sort of weird so far uhm.. I'm on chapter 17 now and (view spoiler)[I don't feel like I can connect to Quinn...I don't even know what I feel about her so far. Why is she so intent/pushy on sex? and why did he say he loved her? I feel like we barely know Quinn. I'm so conflicted at the moment. (hide spoiler)]

The chapters are really short!

[Alexa]

Chapter 17:

What the actual....what?! (view spoiler)[I can't believe he did that to her finger, what a psycho. This is crazy. I don't like her parents at all, awful people. (hide spoiler)]

AND (view spoiler)[HER DAD AND THAT MENA GIRL?! (hide spoiler)]. This is messed up.

[Alexa]

Trisha this is sickening, I just read through chapter 20, what in the world am I reading.. I don't like where this is going.
Can't wait to see what you think!!

Going to pick up another book now..

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I just finished 5 chapters....wow, yea, that last line... eek!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

sickening??? oh no :(

[Alexa]

Some of the stuff that happen are just really wrong :/

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

just finished chapter 10...ewww (view spoiler)[ that Mark guy from the office. I have a bad bad bad feeling about him. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I don't think I've ever hit a part in a book where I've actually said WTF just happened.


but seriously, I just finished chapter 17

and who are these neighbors!?! and just ewww! Where did that come from?!?!

and him hurting her?!?! this is just such a double bombshell to drop on us.

[Alexa]

I honestly had no idea, like what was even going on......

After chapter 20 I felt like I was done. That's it for today. Might pick it up later or something. I think we might even finish it tomorrow? Considering each chapter is really short.

It might get better towards the end? I have no idea but I really hope so, and maybe Delicate is better? The synopsis for that one sounds promising. At the moment my brain is like trying to sort out all of these weird happenings, I really don't know what I think about this so far.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Yeah, I'm not so sure either.
Yeah, let's just read through tomorrow! It's really short.

I stopped at chapter Twenty three (because the next two were short)

and it's all just.....yuck.

I still don't get why they added the physical violence in there.

or why she went off on Quinn.I felt like her response was so off the handle.

Is it the pills she's on that make her moods so erratic? Or does she have some other psychological issues?

This is just weird. And I don't feel like I know either character well enough to care enough.

Right now it's all just....gross.

[Alexa]

I agree! Her reaction to Caroline/Lynnie staying over at Ben's was shocking. Have some faith in the guy, he's falling head over heels, TRUST HIM when he says nothing is going on and that ''Lynnie'' and him aren't an item anymore.

I fail to see how we're supposed to sympathize with her......she's shallow, selfish, ridiculous and the way she expects him to sleep with her? Give the guy a freaking break! You didn't even return the L-word. And the Mark thing? UGH. WHAT ARE WE READING.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Gah! I completely agree!!

BUT WE WILL FINISH! LOL!! :D

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

do you think this will end with any redeeming qualities??

[Alexa]

Well it better...and I hope it does. The synopsis ends with, "But how far can you push someone, even someone who loves you, before they are gone for good?" I have a feeling it might get better, lets not lose all hope.. LOL. Fingers crossed!

what about you, what do you think? :)

I think Delicate is going to be better than this one, the synopsis sounds way better and hopefully Sydney isn't like Quinn....I don't think I can stand another Quinn.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I'm not sure. I'm not totally sold on this writer's style. Like above, I'm not a big fan of the information about the abuse just casually dropped in and then not talked about.

I mean, almost entire loss of fingers is kind of a big deal! but we aren't getting anything more about...it's just jarring..it feels off. I hope it starts to even out. We either get more info or less....

[Alexa]

Agreed! This is actually disappointing in terms of my expectations, I was expecting (clearly) too much. We were excited and all and this is what we get. sigh.

[Alexa]

This is ridiculous. So much unneeded drama. Quinn is so infuriating and appalling god sake. got 95 pages left.

[Alexa]

I don't see what's so special about Quinn, why is Ben acting and following after her like a love sick puppy? Get over her. After everything she has done.....how can anyone forgive her?

[Alexa]

Caroline seems so calm, genuine, lovely and just perfect for Ben while Quinn on the other hand is a drama-attracting shallow person bleugh

[Alexa]

I can't believe she's 18? wow talk about being immature to the core..
got 40 pages left now, nothing has changed

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

lol just finished my current book....

back to this one...I've been dreading it all day :(

[Alexa]

I just finished this. The last chapter (56) was actually really cute but everything else was just ugh.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

OMG, I'm at the part where Caroline is at the party and Quinn is freaking out and I'm just...I just can't

seriously, you HAD SEX with someone else

and you're mad he showed up with a FRIEND to a party.

I'm just...I can't even.

Okay, chapter 56 is cute. I hope that gets me through this. This is awful and none sense

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay, I'm done too.

and I just honestly...I got nothing.

Not a fan of this one. :(

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Alexa, I'm not gonna lie - thank you for reading this with me

it was misery, and your comments kept me laughing even though this horrible horrible book.

I absolutely loved all your comments above - and every time I made it to chapter with your spoiler, I read them and laughed

I can say I would NOT have finished this if you hadn't.

lol

ugh, let's make the next buddy read a better book! Right?

[Alexa]

aw no need to thank me =)!

I'm glad I helped you pull through, trust me, I don't think I would've done it either if it wasnt for you. This is why I like buddy reading, if I were to read this without someone, I think the book would've been out the window the second I read chapter 10 lol.

Right!! :D do we plan on reading the second book? If you want to then I don't mind, who knows, we might need each other again....LOL. This is actually one of the worst books I've read so far this year, I don't think I've come across one so horrible as this one though. Most books that look and sound promising end up either good or okay, this was just....no comment.

[Alexa]

I don't think I want to read the second book anytime soon though, I feel like this has ruined enough of my reading spirit. This was just hopeless.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Lol. Yeah I don't think I could take book 2 or even the prequel anytime soon!! Ugh!

But I hope you will read them with me when I do!!! I can't imagine facing this alone!! Lol

I agree this was by far one if the worst books I've read in a while.just hopeless and so frustrating - I couldn't even muster up enough emotion for Quinn to feel sad for her.