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Review: Charade

December 7, 2012 by Jaime 4 Comments

Charade (The Games Series, #1)Charade by Nyrae Dawn
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

2.5 stars… This is in need of better editing… It totally wrecked this for me.

I don’t know when I’m going to learn my lesson, but I picked this up because of all the high ratings it was getting. (please see my review of Edge of Never for how successful this has been for me)

I’ll be completely honest… the story itself is not that bad, but the editing and the predictable story line really didn’t do a single thing for me. Admittedly I didn’t make it past the first 5 chapters of another of this author’s books, but I did read an adult story by her that I really enjoyed so I thought I’d take a chance.

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It’s probably not going to happen again.

So we meet 19 year old Cheyenne who, on the outside has the perfect life… she walks in on her boyfriend screwing some girl. She’s up and moved her life to be with him at school (Life lesson there girls – never do it) and now she knows no one and everyone of course knows the ex.

21 year old Colt just happens to be in the wrong place at the right time or wrong time.. I don’t know… at first of course he thinks it’s the wrong place / wrong time. He sees the outside package of Cheyenne and immediately refers to her as princess.

But she’s no princess. She wants to get it through her ex’s head that she doesn’t need him. So she asks Colt for some help – She’ll pay him to pretend to be her boyfriend. Just a couple appearances and he gets the money he desperately needs and she gets the satisfaction of her ex seeing her with someone else.

Of course the ex and Colt already have a beef with each other so that makes it all the more appropriate.

Both Cheyenne and Colt are dealing with losses in their life, Cheyenne was ‘abandoned’ by her mother when she was younger and Colt’s mother is dying. So they can bond on some sort of level with that.

What I liked about this… I really like the cover.

And what I can praise is that Ms. Dawn can really write believable plots… nothing over the top or contrived for the most part.

Like I said earlier, the story itself isn’t bad. But it didn’t by any means, blow me away. Which then makes me wonder what the heck I missed.

To be perfectly honest, I think the horrible horrible editing really pulled me out of this story way too much to truly enjoy it. I can’t be the only one who noticed this… I just can’t. I’d share some of these with you, however I’ve already deleted this from my iPad so… no luck… wait I have one…This was a status update so It’s saved there … along with my confusion.

Her panties match her bra in color and the fact that I want them off her and on the floor.”

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This would be considered New Adult so if you’re looking for something in that genre and don’t mind a little predictability with your drama this might be the book for you. Like I said, I seem to be in the minority opinion wise, so maybe I’m broken? LOL

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