Series: So Far So Good #1
Published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD) on December 24, 2019
Genres: Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy, General
Pages: 291
Format: eBook
Source: ARC
A painfully awkward love story.
Incomprehensibly awkward Elizabeth Wilde is desperate for love. Connection. Intimacy. After a lifetime of romantic failures, the twenty-one-year-old gamer realizes she needs help. Professional help. She needs...
A sex tutor.
The devastatingly hot jock Austin Jacobs is just the man for the job. As the reigning campus sex god, he has the playboy act down pat. But underneath those six-pack abs beats a broken heart. He doesn't trust people and he sure as hell doesn't believe in love.
The odd couple strike a deal. Four weeks of &‘tutoring' for five thousand dollars.
When Austin coaxes Elizabeth out from behind her computer screen, the attraction they feel is undeniable. They're both a little broken, but somehow their jagged edges fit. And when their world comes tumbling down on top of them, they each have to decide if this weird thing called love is worth fighting for.
Reader advisory: This book includes references to inadequate parenting, parental death, a parent with addiction. There are also scenes including the use of performance drugs.
New Adult genre can be hit or miss for me. As awkward as Kingston made this story, it had a wonderful mix of sweet, angst, and steam that made reading Austin and Elizabeth’s story a pleasure.
Now, if I’m being honest, I didn’t care for Elizabeth but that is definitely just a reader preference and it happens frequently when I dive into YA and NA books. I bet most readers of this book will find her charming while I see enough of myself to be a rather raucous peanut gallery as she blunders her way through the story. I spent a lot of her POVs alternately cringing and rolling my eyes for the first half of the book. I wasn’t completely sold on the reason behind her desperately needing a sex tutor and her tale of woe was a bit shaky. I did enjoy the depth of her background beyond her sexual ineptitude and her growth as a character had a satisfying arc. Austin was a fairly typical alpha sex god character, though that didn’t reduce enjoyability in the least.
What I did love was the epilogue. I absolutely adored it!
Amelia Kingston was a new author to me and I definitely plan to read her work again, though I sincerely hope that I like the heroine more in the next one I read. So, That Got Weird was a fun, lighthearted read steeped in awkward, new adult love. Pick it up and expect to laugh and suffer from some heart-pangs as this sweet, weird couple bumble their way through their story. Now we just have to wait for the next book in the series!
**I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
