Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Review: Making Bad Choices by Rita Stradling

Book Blurb:

Making Bad Choices is a taboo high school romance. It’s a sweet love story with a HEA. Recommended for 16+.

Culter Fuller came back into my life on the day my mother died.

We’d hated each other since childhood. Well, I hated him, and I thought the feeling was mutual. Then when I moved to my dad’s house to finish my last semester of high school, we went from being bitter enemies to . . . something else. He was suddenly everywhere, occupying my space and filling me with thoughts I knew were wrong.

I knew that soon we would cross a line that should never be crossed, a line with very serious consequences.

Because Culter wasn’t just any irresistible boy, Culter Fuller was my stepbrother.

But I have always been very bad at making the right choices.

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My Review:

3.5 Out Of 5 Stars

Genre: New Adult, Romance, Teen--

Cassie has slowly been watching her mother die of cancer for years when it actually happens over the Christmas holiday and in the middle of her senior year of high school. Her supportive father and loving step-mother step up to help her deal with the situation, but that means she needs to give up her life in Los Angeles and move to small town Colorado- and see her hated step brother Culter who she hasn't seen since they were kids. But Culter is not the same boy she remembers, instead he is this incredibly attractive, sweet and a little bit bossy boy she has no idea how to interact with. Things are about to get messy.

If loving books about inappropriate relationships is wrong, I don't want to right. There is just something taboo relationships that draws me in like a moth to a flame- don't judge! For those who need to know the level of inappropriateness for this book, this was a relationship between step-siblings who were not raised together and had no biological connections (hey share a half sibling though) and they did not actually get into a relationship until they were 18- so on the scale, this was super mild. Oh and the content was pretty pg, maybe a dash of pg13 thrown in for flavor when it came to romance, but there was a TON of drug use in the story, just FYI (so not realistic/relatable to my high school experience but made for more story controversy I guess).

I have read a few other books by this author and this is actually my favorite. I found this to be a really fast read, something you can power through in a day. It was heavy on the emotional angst and tons of drama of all kinds, but I think that made it a more fun read- everyone loves rubbernecking at a hot mess? I found the romance between Cassie and Culter to be really sweet and I am always a sucker for a HEA- which this certainly was.

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