Eeeeeep! I’ve been waiting for this book to come out and I am so excited to share my thoughts with you.
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This is a story about Roxie and Griffin; Roxie is a college student who likes the quiet-no-drama kind of life, and then there is Griffin, who is a star basketball player at the same college. Roxie and Griffin meet well before the story begins, but there was one faithful night that brought them together. At that moment I was on pins and needles; I didn’t quite get where the story was going, in a good way. I love being surprised about how the story and plot will go. You know that feeling when your heart is beating real fast and you wish you could read faster so you know what was going to happen right then and there? Because if you skipped some words you might miss a twist or turn in the story? Well that was me at the beginning.
Roxie is someone I think a lot of people could relate to. She was trying to find her place in this world, but yet wants to do something positive and be a good friend to people. Due to her history – which you don’t really know at the beginning – she keeps referencing some secret, that is driving me crazy to find out, that would just destroy her reputation. You can’t tell if it is an addiction, abusive family member, or some kind of small thing that she is just making sound like some major issue. Well let me tell you that when you think you’ve found out what the twist is, you realize you would have never guessed it. Is it big? Well yes, I gasped and blinked real hard a couple of times and re-read that part. I still really like her at this point, but I really want to know how and why this happens.
So you go deeper into the story and the love development piece starts to begin and the typical stuff happens, but because Griffin is the star basketball player and Roxie a roller derby player, there are some not so typical moments. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that Roxie is in a female roller derby group that kicks butt, but like herself it’s not super popular at her school and therefore there aren’t many fans. There are some really great moments when their worlds collide and makes a powerful message without even trying in the book.
There are moments where I was tense and pissed at some the things the ex’s and just jealous folks did in the story, but it made the story really juicy and showed in the end how smart Roxie and her friends are. I also have to mention this is an Interracial Romance (IR) with Roxie being Black and Griffin being Caucasian. Normally I try to fantasize these stories; I always feel that in these stories you can picture whomever you want to play the parts in the books, and in a sense preserving the fictional characters and making the story what you want in your head. But due to the fact that in this story race isn’t mentioned as taboo it isn’t pronounced and all about the story. No, the story is so much more than that and if you are a fan of Scandal or Hallie Berry’s new show, you can see how the color of your skin in a story doesn’t change you from either relating to a character or getting into a story. The story is fictional but reads fast and with a bunch of twist and turns and emotional angst that I love in a romance. I give this book a solid 5 stars!
Found by You is a Standalone book
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June 30, 2014 @ 10:56 am
Great review!!!
June 30, 2014 @ 4:58 pm
Thank you my friend <3.