I requested to review Trusting You and Other Lies for one reason and one reason only: Nicole Williams wrote it. I didn’t read the synopsis, I didn’t pay attention to the genre, I didn’t even notice much about the cover beyond seeing her name on it. Then my request was granted and I had a minor freak out. I noticed the characters on the cover looked kind of young, so with a small sense of dread I read the synopsis. And then I realized I might have made a mistake, because as I suspected, this book is Young Adult. Let me be clear, there is … [Read more...]
Review: Roommates with Benefits by Nicole Williams
Here I am again, reading a book only because Nicole Williams wrote it. Last time it paid off huge. This time? Not so much. Roommates with Benefits started off pretty strong. I felt that Hayden’s back story seemed a tad dramatic but I was going to go with it. Soren was likeable from the beginning. He was a hottie baseball player living in NYC with a smart ass mouth. The first time he met Hayden was fraught with tension and sparks and I couldn’t wait to get more of their dynamic. And I wasn’t let down. Until I was. There was an unnecessary … [Read more...]
Review: Tortured by Nicole Williams
Tortured is an excellent name for this book, because it describes precisely how I felt the entire time I was reading it. And I know that sounds like something I would say about an awful book, but that’s not at all the case. This book was so well-written that it was painful, because I felt everything. It was too real. Way too real. It made me feel way more than I was comfortable feeling, especially since reading is my escape and my happy place. This book was so good and honest about what it was that I didn’t enjoy enjoying it. Does that … [Read more...]
Review: Mister Wrong by Nicole Williams
I have come to love me some Nicole Williams. She has written some really fantastic books and I couldn’t wait to read another one. Mister Wrong was an enjoyable read but it didn’t deliver quite the way I wanted it to. In a lot of ways, it was excellent. The writing was great, the dialogue and chemistry were great, but there’s one place, one major place for me, where it lost me – believability. I know that it’s fiction. I know that. But we’re not talking science fiction or fantasy where I can easily suspend reality for the sake of … [Read more...]
Review: Hate Story by Nicole Williams
Hate Story is an adorable, captivating, romance that I didn’t want to end. Nicole Williams did a fantastic job with this book and these characters, even taking old clichés and breathing new life into them to make them fresh and fun. Reading this book was like watching a really great romantic comedy for the first time. You know the kind I’m talking about. I’ll use You’ve Got Mail for example because I’ve watched it no less than 5 times this holiday break. It gives you that warm, gooey feeling in your chest, it makes you laugh, it makes your … [Read more...]
Review: Touching Down by Nicole Williams
Earlier this year I read and loved Collared by Nicole Williams. I was blown away by the clever story and her skillful writing and I immediately put her on my radar. I don’t usually ever do this, but I went into Touching Down nearly blind. I knew it was a sports romance – hello, the cover – but other than that I just kind of let my previous experiences lead me to reviewing an early copy. It started off really strong; the opening scenes held a lot of mystery and did an excellent job at establishing characters and relationships. I was … [Read more...]
Review: Collared by Nicole Williams
“You always had a way of taking the ground right out from beneath me.” I’m an admitted chicken. I don’t typically do the “dark” reads. I just mentally can’t. I absorb them too much, experience them too deeply. I usually feel myself slip into a sort of depression and it’s just mentally exhausting. So I tend to stick with the lighter stuff. When my friend raved about this book and roughly explained to me the premise, I just had to read it and find out what happens. I’m so glad that I did. “I’ll never finish falling in love with you.” This book … [Read more...]