Review:Naked Edge by Charli Webb

Title: Naked Edge

Author: Charli Webb

Release Date: 1st December 2013
My Rating: 2/5 stars

 

*I was given this book in exchange for an honest review*

Skylar's family was forced into the witness protection program when she was only seventeen. After her mother died years later, Sky moved back in with the only family she had left. She knew she'd run into her high school sweetheart but she didn't expect the changes she found in Rowdy. He wasn't the sweet boy she left so many years ago. He'd turned into a womanizing jerk but that didn't stop her heart from wanting him.

I had such high expectations for this book. The premise sounded amazing and alot like the new adult novels I thoroughly enjoy. It was even pitched towards those who enjoyed Jay Crownover’s Marked Men series. I would love to say that I was blown away by this book, or even that I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Sadly that wasn’t the case.

The characters I found to be rather bland and cliché, but not in the good cliché way. Skylar was just too bratty for my liking. She would take little things way too seriously and get overly emotional, only to then act blasé and nonchalant when serious stuff went down. She irritated me massively. Rowdy isn’t any better. He switches between running hot and cold faster than anyone. Ione minute he’s purposely trying to hurt Sky and the next he comforts her over mundane occurrings.  The supporting characters were just that, fillers to give the book some bulk but didn’t add anything of value to the actual plot unfortunately.

The writing of this book wasn’t particularly enjoyable for me personally. I found it choppy and mixed paced, dragging in some parts and skipping what I considered important details in others. The climber’s vocabulary was rather heavy for something that was supposed to be romantic new adult fiction, and I found myself getting increasingly annoyed at the frequent use of terms I didn’t know. I knew there was a glossary at the end of the ebook but I didn’t want to keep scrolling through to the end of the novel and then trying to find my page again, as its pretty time consuming on an e-reader. I feel like the premise for this book had so much potential, it could’ve been something amazing, but it fell majorly short. 2 stars for a great concept though.