Mini Reviews : 3 A.M Kisses by Addison Moore & The Art of Letting Go by Anna Bloom

Summary (from Goodreads)

Title : 3 A.M Kisses
Author : Addison Moore
Publication Date : September 17th 2013
Publisher : Self-Published
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Baya Brighton is looking forward to her first year at Whitney Briggs University, new friends, dorm life, and finally being close to her brother again. Love is the last thing on the list, but when Baya meets her brother’s roommate she begins to have thoughts and feelings that make even her blush.

Bryson Edwards has a secret he prefers buried in the past and long forgotten. He prefers loose girls, fast cars, and long nights working at the string of bars his family owns. When his roommate’s sister shows up on the scene, she’s far too innocent and sweet for him but he can’t shake Baya out of his mind and worse, it looks like she’s seeping into his heart as well.

Baya seems determined to show her brother she’s not a little kid and equally determined to use Bryson’s body to prove her point. It’s been made pretty clear that Baya is off limits to Bryson but their undeniable sparks explode into a whole lot more than just a few 3:AM KISSES.

Personal Thoughts

This might sound shallow and make me look like a perv, but I decided to read 3 A.M Kisses because of the sexy cover. And what a HUGE mistake that was! 3 A.M Kisses has to be one of the strangest and silliest books I've ever read and it's actually made me not want to pick up anything by the author in the future. The main character, Baya, was your typical virginal girl, but she was different in that she thought about sex a million times a day. I don't think I've ever hated a main character as much as I hated Baya. She slut shames people based on their clothes when she herself accidentally flashed her breasts while moving into her dorm. Every single woman who sleeps with her love interest is either a slut or a bimbo and gosh, I just wanted to slap the hell out of that girl. She also tried to be funny and sarcastic, but she only came out looking like she was trying too hard. Oh and the girl had no self-respect whatsoever. She kept throwing herself at Bryson and it was absolutely pathetic. In addition to the characters being ridiculous, the whole setting was unrealistic and honestly preposterous. It appeared to me that Baya's college was full of sex maniacs. I know that college students have sex, but that's not all college students do! For instance, whenever she goes into her room, her roommate is always humping some new guy. Every.Single.Time. And she is so full of lust that she doesn't even realize that Baya's in the room. At one point, Baya names her roommates breasts. Ugh. Just ugh. And then there's Baya's brother. We're led to believe in the beginning that he and Baya had this strong bond which is why Baya followed him to his college. But all the guy did was have non-stop sex with hordes of women. I swear, I don't think they had one meaningful conversation in the book. Also, what kind of brother indulges in threesomes while your baby sister is in the next room? The writing was also incredibly awkward. The one example that immediately comes to mind is how Baya compared her clitoris to a "rose bud" and Bryson compared his penis to a "sad puppy". No. Just no. Honestly, this book was an utter mess. As harsh as this may sound, I'm not even going to recommend this book to my worst enemy (not that I have one).  Stay away from it. I'm still having nightmares about it.

Rating

Cover : 3/5
Plot : 0/5
Characters : 0/5
Writing : 1/5

Summary (from Goodreads)

Title : The Art of Letting Go (The Uni Files #1)
Author : Anna Bloom
Publication Date : September 25th 2013
Publisher : Soul Mate Publishing
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One year. One woman. One Diary. One question: can you ever stop history from repeating itself and if you could what would you do to stop it?

When Lilah McCannon realises at the age of twenty-five that history is going to repeat itself and she is going to become her mother—bored, drunk and wearing a twinset—there is only one thing to do: take drastic action.

Turning her back on her old life, Lilah’s plan is to enrol at university, get a degree and prove she is a grown-up.

As plans go, it is a good one. There are rules to follow: no alcohol, no cigarettes, no boys and no going home. But when Lilah meets the lead singer of a local band and finds herself unexpectedly falling in love, she realises her rules are not going to be the only things hard to keep.

With the academic year slipping by too quickly, Lilah faces a barrage of new challenges: will she ever make it up the Library stairs without having a heart attack? Can she handle a day on campus without drinking vodka? Will she ever manage to read a history book without falling asleep? And most importantly, can she become the grown-up that she desperately wants to be.
With her head and her heart pulling her in different directions can Lilah learn the hardest lesson that her first year of university has to teach her: The Art of Letting Go?

Personal Thoughts

Anna Bloom's The Art of Letting Go was a book that I was looking forward to read it because not only is it set in England, but it also has a protagonist who was in her mid-twenties heading back to college. I thought that that would make for an interesting story and I was excited because it sounded promising. While the main character Lilah might have been in her mid-twenties, she had the maturity level of a 12 year old. She was a difficult main character and I truly wish she had more of a backbone. Her constant jealousy fits whenever a girl approached her love interest and constant blushing/giggling when she would be with the love interest frustrated me. One particular scene that just showed how immature she was was when she gets a terrible haircut and then refuses to go to classes or outside her room to even eat. I just never understood that. You can wear a cap or cool-looking hats if you want to hide your haircut. You don't just skip classes for almost a week. That just seemed very childish to me. She also made a promise to herself to steer away from romance and focus on her studies, but of course she broke that promise within a few hours. I'm not saying she shouldn't have been interested in boys, but I wished she was more focused on academics as well. While the romance was sweet at times, it could also get really cheesy. There was this one scene when the love interest, Ben, who is in a band, started singing "Hey there Delilah" by Plain White T's. I don't know, I just thought that scene was so cheesy I actually laughed. In the end, I just couldn't make it through the entire book because the book was full of scenes like that. The book does have an insanely high rating on Goodreads, so I suppose it didn't work for me because of my personal preferences.

Rating

Cover : 4/5
Plot : 2/5
Characters : 1/5
Writing : 3/5