I'm an avid, somewhat obsessive reader of clean romantic fiction. Clean Reads Please is a place to share the books I find. If you have any recommendations feel free to leave a comment or email me: cleanreadsplease@gmail.com My preferences are contemporary, young adult, new adult and historical. I don't read paranormal or anything containing graphic or descriptive sex.
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Sunday, 13 July 2014
Perfectly Messy by Lizzy Charles
Ok, what the heck just happened?
Seriously. What. I'm so confused. But in a good way. I think?
So this is the sequel to Effortless With You which I read yesterday. So I read the first half of this last night and finished the rest this morning. So the first half went on like your normal sequel, it was great. I liked seeing Justin and Lucy's relationship together. They were facing hurdles, but nothing too unexpected. And then about half way through a drama happens that I didn't see coming but ok. That was fine, everybody's reactions to it were understandable. And then even Justin's ultimate reaction and resolution was expected as well. I'm trying to be as vague as possible here, so as to not give too much away...
But then, the last chapter of the book? The final resolution that wasn't and then the one that was? And then all the realness and messiness?? I'm here for all of that. I'm totally here for Lucy calling out Justin for his ish. Even though I didn't even know that that's what it was. I know i'm not making any sense here. It's cause I'm still a bit confused. But in a good way. This book is a whirlwind. It's real. I get so bored of everybody's emotions being so cookie cutter and perfect in YA. It's annoying. But this wasn't that.This was the characters having expectations and making mistakes that people have and make in real life. This was having ish blow up in your face like it does in real life. This was not setting people up for false expectations of what love is. This was indeed messy, but perfect at the same time.
So though I'm still kind of dazed from that last chapter, Lizzy Charles you have made a fan out of me. I'm here for all of this realness.
Breath of fresh air.
Notes: Clean. 4 stars
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