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Carry Me Home
by Lia Riley
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of this review.
Carry Me Home by Lia Riley is a short novella, a companion to the series Off The Map. I have to be brutally honest for a minute. This novella is nothing like what I thought it would be. It is the first time I've ever read this author and with this sweet cover I was thinking a light contemporary romance. Well, that's not exactly the case. This is the opening line to the book (Note it is a bit graphic):
So yeah, I don't even know how to respond to that!
Sunny Letman is a young woman in her twenties and she thinks she has everything figured out. She never stays with a guy for more than one night. She's a love 'em and leave 'em kinda gal, which is a role reversal from most New Adult books I've read. She's crass, snarky, and has this hatred for Tanner Green that I just didn't understand from the beginning. It's quite obvious to the reader the girl is in denial!
Then there's Tanner Green, the pro-skater who basically left his old life behind and carries the guilt from it with him. He's an interesting character. His girlfriend died a few years back in a car crash and he's never been the same. He has some serious issues though, I mean in the first chapter he WATCHES as Sunny is literally riding another man - EWWWWW!!!! Can we all say perv?! This really kind of ruined my perspective of him from the get go, however the author redeems him as the chapters alternate POV and we get inside his head a bit. Poor guy is screwed up!
This novella is really short and I enjoyed it some what. I think I may have enjoyed it more without the very open-door, graphic sex scenes. I'm just not that kind of girl. However the relationship between Tanner and Sunny is volatile and sweet all at the same time. If you enjoy new adult contemporary romance or you've read the series Off the Map and want more, then I believe this short is for you.
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Carry Me Home by Lia Riley is a short novella, a companion to the series Off The Map. I have to be brutally honest for a minute. This novella is nothing like what I thought it would be. It is the first time I've ever read this author and with this sweet cover I was thinking a light contemporary romance. Well, that's not exactly the case. This is the opening line to the book (Note it is a bit graphic):
Shoot me, I like sex. If I wait for true love before getting busy, I'll be covered in cobwebs, and that's bad news for someone with arachnophobia. ~ Sunny
So yeah, I don't even know how to respond to that!
Sunny Letman is a young woman in her twenties and she thinks she has everything figured out. She never stays with a guy for more than one night. She's a love 'em and leave 'em kinda gal, which is a role reversal from most New Adult books I've read. She's crass, snarky, and has this hatred for Tanner Green that I just didn't understand from the beginning. It's quite obvious to the reader the girl is in denial!
Then there's Tanner Green, the pro-skater who basically left his old life behind and carries the guilt from it with him. He's an interesting character. His girlfriend died a few years back in a car crash and he's never been the same. He has some serious issues though, I mean in the first chapter he WATCHES as Sunny is literally riding another man - EWWWWW!!!! Can we all say perv?! This really kind of ruined my perspective of him from the get go, however the author redeems him as the chapters alternate POV and we get inside his head a bit. Poor guy is screwed up!
This novella is really short and I enjoyed it some what. I think I may have enjoyed it more without the very open-door, graphic sex scenes. I'm just not that kind of girl. However the relationship between Tanner and Sunny is volatile and sweet all at the same time. If you enjoy new adult contemporary romance or you've read the series Off the Map and want more, then I believe this short is for you.
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