Review : Wild by Sophie Jordan

Summary (from Goodreads)

Title : Wild (The Ivy Chronicles #2)
Author : Sophie Jordan
Publication Date : November 18th 2014
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks 
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A good girl goes fabulously bad in the final book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s sexy New Adult romance series, in which three Ivy League suite-mates seek higher knowledge of just how far they can go.

Months after her boyfriend dumped her, Georgia can still hear the insults he hurled at her. Boring. Predictable. Tame. Tired of feeling bad, she’s ready to change her image, and go a little wild. What better way to prove her ex wrong than a hot night of sexual adventure at the secret campus kink club?

In the shadowy den of the kink club, she unexpectedly runs into Logan Mulvaney, her friend’s little brother. A player extraordinaire too hot for his own good, he may be younger, but the guy is light years ahead when it comes to sexual experience. Now he’s telling her to go home—“good girls” don’t belong here!

Georgia is tired of having others define her. She’s going to teach Logan a lesson he won’t forget—one white hot, mind-wrecking kiss . . . that leads to another . . . and another . . . and. . . . Realizing she’s way in over her head, Georgia runs.

Only Logan won’t let her go. Everywhere she goes he’s there, making her want every inch of him. Making her forget who she is. Who he is. And just how wrong they are for each other.

Personal Thoughts 

My feelings about this series has gone up and down over the course of the book. I loved the first book, Foreplay, but Tease wasn't as good for me as Foreplay was. I was looking forward to reading Wild mostly because I was hoping that it would go back to the awesomeness that was Foreplay, but unfortunately that didn't happen. I certainly didn't hate the book, but I didn't love it either.

I think one of my biggest issues with this series are the female characters. They start of alright, but then they really grate on my nerves as the story progresses and they don't. I didn't have much of an issue with Pepper in the first book, but Emerson was infuriating. And now that I've read Georgia's book, I can say the same about her as well. I thought for sure I would like her because she was a really great secondary character in the first two books, but in Wild, she became one of those annoying characters who pushes the guy away for no apparent reason and then acts all upset when the guy moves on. I really hated how Georgia kept pushing Logan away and her hot and cold behavior towards him made me thing some very not nice things about her. It just felt like she was stringing him along when she couldn't make a proper decision when it came to her feelings about him. Thankfully, though Sophie Jordan's male characters are always wonderful. They are made of swoon, are sweethearts whom you can't help but fall in love with. Logan was no different. You could tell that he was Reese's brother with his gentlemanly attitude and his sexy self. ;) He really did make the book for me and I would probably have DNFed the book had it not been for him.

While for me Sophie Jordan's characters are a little problematic, I do think she writes great romances. She is especially good at writing some steamy sex scenes that don't border on icky. Georgia and Logan definitely had some great steaming chemistry together. And the scenes where they were both being honest to each other were very sweet and had my heart singing. That being said though, I can't say I was convinced by their love for each other. Sure they had sexual chemistry and a strong physical relationship, but for me, I never really saw that emotional connection between the two of them. There was also a side story line about Georgia standing up to her family that really could have been developed further, in my opinion. What I did really like though was getting to see Pepper and Reese again. I love that they were still going strong and they were so adorable together.

I know it seems like I pretty much hated this book, but I didn't. I enjoyed certain parts of it and I think Sophie Jordan is a great author, but I wasn't in love with it, which is a bit disappointing because I wanted to fall head over heels for Wild!

Rating

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

Thank you to Edelweiss and William Morrow for the e-ARC of Wild.