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The Revenge Pact
by Ilsa Madden-Mills
I am a big fan of Ilsa Madden-Mills and this book definitely kept up with what I know and love of her stories. The characters were really great and I loved the banter and all the dialogue. River Tate was swoony. A football player and a fraternity president, but not just all clean cut, he was also tattooed and a bit of a bad boy. But even with being a bad boy he had the game. I knew that a certain thing towards the beginning of the story was really him, and not who Anastasia thought it was. Anastasia was a wild child, but a sweet, caring, smart wild child. She’d also dealt with a lot, people leaving her, either completely or even just in little ways, with her parents as hippies that would take off and leave her with their friends at times. They cared about her, just didn’t always make the wisest decisions about things when it came to doing what they wanted.
River’s family was sweet as well, he had things to prove, or at least to take care of, but he didn’t let any of his issues keep him from being a good guy. He was the one that everyone in the fraternity knew they could count on, and he did it without complaint, just as second nature to him. He wasn’t perfect, but pretty darn close.
In the end, I loved the way the author wrapped it up. I won’t say what I loved specifically, because that would give stuff away, but it was definitely a little different than you often see in a New Adult book, and I liked it. There was however one little thing that bothered me enough to drop this to a 4.5 star rating here on my blog. When River would be describing what Anastasia was wearing, the way it was worded was weird. It was like, “black leather boots were on her legs”. Uh, where else would boots be? If it had just been once, that’d be one thing. But there were two or three times where there were paragraph long descriptions like that, and it just sounded off to me. I get it is different than just saying, “she was wearing thigh high leather boots. But it just was worded weird. Especially that many times.
Now I’m eager to go on and read the next book in this series, which is by a different author, another favorite of mine, Meghan Quinn.
Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.
River’s family was sweet as well, he had things to prove, or at least to take care of, but he didn’t let any of his issues keep him from being a good guy. He was the one that everyone in the fraternity knew they could count on, and he did it without complaint, just as second nature to him. He wasn’t perfect, but pretty darn close.
In the end, I loved the way the author wrapped it up. I won’t say what I loved specifically, because that would give stuff away, but it was definitely a little different than you often see in a New Adult book, and I liked it. There was however one little thing that bothered me enough to drop this to a 4.5 star rating here on my blog. When River would be describing what Anastasia was wearing, the way it was worded was weird. It was like, “black leather boots were on her legs”. Uh, where else would boots be? If it had just been once, that’d be one thing. But there were two or three times where there were paragraph long descriptions like that, and it just sounded off to me. I get it is different than just saying, “she was wearing thigh high leather boots. But it just was worded weird. Especially that many times.
Now I’m eager to go on and read the next book in this series, which is by a different author, another favorite of mine, Meghan Quinn.
Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.