Review: Seven Shades of You by A.M. Johnson
SYNOPSIS:
Her world was color. Canvas and paint. Indie O’Connell lived inside her head. Her voices the muse. And as a freshman at St. Peter’s College, all she wanted, was to create a name for herself with the brush in her hand.
His world was over. Despite his humble upbringing, Kai Carter seemed to have it all. Captain of the swim team and a full scholarship. His golden boy status a mask he had to wear to keep his dream and his family afloat. All the pieces of his life dangled precariously from his fingertips.
Forced to fight a battle he’d never signed up for, Kai’s loyalty turned out to be his undoing, and like a good captain, no matter what the cost, he’d gone down with the ship.
They never planned for their worlds to collide.
He was her brother’s best friend.
She was supposed to be invisible.
Off limits.
Being together, regardless of how much they wanted it, was a line they’d never cross. But when lives get messy, lines get blurred, and in love, nothing is ever black and white.
REVIEW:
Oh boy did I struggle to finish this book. I thought about DNF-ing it but I was already at 73% at that point and even though it took me a whole week, I powered through and finished the book. And if I felt like Let There Be Light had a forced narrative, it was nothing compared to this story.
I don’t even know where to start, but I think I need to disclose that this story was boring. In terms of romance we all know how this is going to go, sweet, innocent girl falls for campus man-whore. Which is fine, I don’t hate that story line but I thought there would be something more. There was nothing to make this story stand out. Indie’s ‘voices’ felt like an after thought at times because Kai makes everything silent. Kai is the hero she has been waiting for.
Indie’s roommate, Daphne, seems like she is going to be a problem and is heavily mentioned in the first 20% of story but then she is essentially written out of the book. This felt very strange and like why even have her presence at all when she didn’t contribute anything to either character’s narrative. Kai is just a hot mess and even after everything concludes, he still seems like a mess.
Again, it felt like it wanted to be emotional, gripping story but it just didn’t make it there. After the Daphne drama left, the whole story line was about hiding their relationship from Royal, which wasn’t enough to carry 80% of the book. Just a giant miss of a read for me.
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