Book Review: My Sweetest Escape by Chelsea M Cameron


Genre: 

New Adult, order Contemporary, viagra sale Romance

Pages: 

363 pages

Part of a Series?:

Second in the My Favorite Mistake series

Release Date: 

January 28th, 2014

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GoodReads Summary: 

Jos Archer was the girl with the perfect life; until the night it all came crashing down around her. Now, nine months later, she still hasn’t begun to pick up the pieces. Even transferring to a new college and living under the watchful eye of her older sister, Renee, isn’t enough to help her feel normal again.

And then she meets Dusty Sharp. For reasons Jos can’t begin to fathom, the newly reformed campus bad boy seems determined to draw her out of her shell. And if she’s not careful, his knowing green eyes and wicked smile will make her feel things she’s no longer sure she deserves.

But even as Dusty coaxes Jos to open up about the past, he’s hiding secrets of his own. Secrets about the night her old life fell apart. When the truth is finally revealed, will it bring them closer together;or tear them apart for good?

My Review:

I loved this book even more than I loved the first one. The first was sweet, and all of that, and I loved seeing Taylor and Hunter fall in love but I really love Jos and Dusty…oh especially Dusty. I loved them from page one to the last page.

I like that Jos and Dusty both have secrets, they both have issues that they’re dealing with but they can’t help but be drawn to each other. What makes that even better is that their problems are connected and it takes them a bit to realize that. I don’t know why but I really like that. I like that they push each other away and pull each other back and take care of each other and mess up. They feel so real to me. I wish I genuinely could find a guy like Dusty, because that’s how incredibly real these two characters felt to me.

I also liked the way Chelsea captured loss. Both Jos and Dusty are dealing with a loss and they each have their own way of handling it and I think she does a beautiful job of capturing the emotions and the struggle of it. I really feel what Jos is feeling when she talks about this boy who became her best friend, who literally become her everything, before he was taken away from her.

I’m sitting here, trying to think of what to say about this book because one, its been a little bit since I read and two, I just loved it so much that I can’t really get the words out. Just thinking about it makes me want to read it again because I truly really enjoyed Jos and Dusty’s romance. I truly LOVED Dusty so much.

Rating: 

4 out of 5 Stars

Book Review: My Favorite Mistake by Chelsea M Cameron

Genre: 

New Adult, buy Contemporary, erectile Romance

Pages: 

400 pages

Part of a Series?:

First in the My Favorite Mistake series

Release Date: 

August 27th, view 2013

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GoodReads Summary: 

Two secrets. One bet. Who will break first?

Taylor Caldwell can’t decide if she wants to kiss her new college roommate or punch him.

On the one hand, Hunter Zaccadelli is a handsome blue-eyed bundle of charm. On the other, he’s a tattooed, guitar-playing bad boy. Maybe that’s why Taylor’s afraid of falling in love with him, or anyone else. She doesn’t want to get burned, so she needs him gone before it’s too late.

Hunter himself has been burned before, but Taylor’s sexy laugh and refusal to let him get away with anything make her irresistible. Determined not to be kicked out of her life without a fight, Hunter proposes a bet: if she can convince him she either truly loves or hates him, he’ll leave the apartment;and leave her alone.

But when the man behind Taylor’s fear of giving up her heart resurfaces, she has to decide: trust Hunter with her greatest secret, or do everything in her power to win that bet and drive him away forever.

My Review:

I was browsing around some lists, looking for some new NA to read and Chelsea M Cameron’s name kept popping up. My library had copies of My Favorite Mistake, so I figured, why not? I’m really really glad that I did.

Chelsea tells a great story from the beginning of the first page all the way to the end. When Taylor walks in and realizes that for some reason she’ll be rooming with a guy – and a HOT one, that – she is so not pleased. I love her tenacity, I love her temper and I love that the first thing she thinks to do is punch him. That’s a pretty legit reaction in my book. I love that. I love that we kind of know right away the kind of person that she is. Immediately I like her.

I also immediately like Hunter as well. I like that he has a balance with Taylor, and that even though she totally punched him in the face and is annoyed by his very presence, he just kind of lets her be her. There’s something really amazing about that. He knows there is some underlying things going on there and he knows that he wants more, but he just accepts her for the person that she is and kind of lets her come to him.

And I like how they come together. Its sweet and sexy at the same time. Its a slow build up to when they end up working their way to each other. I like that. There’s something to be said about a slow build up and I really truly love that about Taylor and Hunter. I really think they become friends before anything else and then friendship blossoms into something else. I think that’s what really made me love their story and I love that when they do reveal things to each other, it just brings them closer together, as it should. Their story feels real. I think sometimes in romances, things get…er…romanticized and don’t seem very realistic, but this one felt real and it felt familiar. I truly love their romance and how it ends.

Okay, the end is a little…not so realistic. Let’s just say Hunter gets Taylor a gift thats a bit much but I don’t know. To me, it just fit with all of their personalities and it fit the story. All in all, a very good opener for this series :)

Rating: 

4 out of 5 Stars

August Book Wrap Up!

Books Pledged to Read in 2015:

150

Am I On Track: 

2 books behind. I was actually caught up at one point but I’ve been writing SO much!

Books Read So Far: 

97

Total Books For August: 

19

Catching Jordan by Miranda Keanneally

The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Re-Read)

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Re-Read)

With this Heart by RS Grey

The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan (Re-Read)

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (Re-Read)

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (Re-Read)

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

My Favorite Mistake by Chelsea M Cameron

My Sweetest Escape by Chelsea M Cameron

When Joss Met Matt by Ellie Cahill

Where I Belong by J Daniels

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare (Re-Read)

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

The Lost Herondale by Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

All of You by Christina Lee

Before You Break by Christina Lee

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