Review: Make It Right by Megan Erickson
SYNOPSIS:
Max Payton lives by two rules:
Size and strength win any fight, and never show weakness.
When a rash of assaults sends Bowler University for a tail spin, Max volunteers to help teach a self-defense class. One of the other instructors is the beautiful pixie-faced girl he keeps butting heads with…and who challenges everything he thought he knew.
Lea Travers avoids guys like Max – cocky jocks who assume she’s fragile because of a disability caused by a childhood accident. She likes to be in control, and something about being with Max makes her feel anything but. But during the moments he lets his guard down, Lea sees a soul as broken inside as she is outside. Trusting him is a whole other problem…
When the assaults ramp up and hit close to home, Lea and Max must learn, before it’s too late, that true strength can come from vulnerability…and giving in to trust is sometimes the only way to make things right.
REVIEW:
I am enjoying the Bowler University series, and Make It Right was no exception, but I feel like these books are falling short of my New Adult genre expectations. While they are adorable, witty, sexy and fun, they aren’t quite going there in terms of characters. I think the characters are potentially lacking some depth and that is what I am really missing in these reads that is preventing me from giving them a 5 star rating.
I loved the cocky jock versus the nerdy girl plot line. Enemies to friends to potentially something more? Why yes, sign me up. When Max finally convinces Lea to go on a date, I loved that he pulled out all the stops, but I wish there would have been a build up because they jumped into bed real fast. Where is the romancing and getting to know each other? From that point, things took the fast lane as they quickly became wrapped up in each other.
Drama ensues, and some of it seemed a little forced. There were moments when I was laughing out and loud and giggling but I wanted more of those! While Max redeems himself from his ‘manwhore’ reputation, I don’t really view it as a redemption. He just grew a pair and decided to be a man instead of letting everyone walk all over him and pretending that life is perfect. Lea, well I don’t really have an opinion on her, aside from her limp due to a childhood injury, she is replaceable.
I just can’t pin-point where in the story it loses the luster for me. I am not entrapped or captivated. Like I said, I enjoy reading it but the book is too easy to put down and the characters are too forgettable. Maybe I’ve read too many New Adult books and that’s why I feel this way but I just want more depth, development, and build-up.
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