Review: The Tenth Girl, Carrie Aarons
Title: The Tenth Girl
Author: Carrie Aarons
Genre: New Adult/Young Adult
Release Date: September 9, 2018
Blurb
Never play a game
you can't win.
For Cain Kent, that rule is golden. Losing is not in his vocabulary, and up until
now, everything has come easy. Football, school, girls ... his charm-laced ego
may just be bigger than Texas itself.
The competition he started freshman year with his friends, to make ten notches
each in their bedposts by graduation day, is practically in the bag. One more
to go, and then it's off to college fame and eventually, the big time.
Attachments aren't something he wants to form, but when the quiet new girl
challenges him in front of his classmates, his curiosity is peaked. She would
be the perfect final score, and what fun to break her in the process.
Too bad Harper Posy has no intention of being just another warm body,
especially to the bad boy quarterback. Even if he does quote Forster and Huxley
when no one is listening. An aspiring author herself, Cain and his hidden soft
side are dangerous to her heart. She's seen men ruin her mother's dreams time
and again, and she's determined to fly far away as soon as she has that diploma
in her fist.
But as the school year’s end looms closer, both realize they didn’t quite
understand the rules to begin with. Is winning a dirty bet worth the gamble
when the stakes, or the other’s heart in this case, are so high?
Harper is the one girl who isn't up for playing games. And she just might make
Cain lose. Everything.
you can't win.
For Cain Kent, that rule is golden. Losing is not in his vocabulary, and up until
now, everything has come easy. Football, school, girls ... his charm-laced ego
may just be bigger than Texas itself.
The competition he started freshman year with his friends, to make ten notches
each in their bedposts by graduation day, is practically in the bag. One more
to go, and then it's off to college fame and eventually, the big time.
Attachments aren't something he wants to form, but when the quiet new girl
challenges him in front of his classmates, his curiosity is peaked. She would
be the perfect final score, and what fun to break her in the process.
Too bad Harper Posy has no intention of being just another warm body,
especially to the bad boy quarterback. Even if he does quote Forster and Huxley
when no one is listening. An aspiring author herself, Cain and his hidden soft
side are dangerous to her heart. She's seen men ruin her mother's dreams time
and again, and she's determined to fly far away as soon as she has that diploma
in her fist.
But as the school year’s end looms closer, both realize they didn’t quite
understand the rules to begin with. Is winning a dirty bet worth the gamble
when the stakes, or the other’s heart in this case, are so high?
Harper is the one girl who isn't up for playing games. And she just might make
Cain lose. Everything.
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Review
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Review
If you're looking for a young adult book that is light and sweet, this one is perfect! It had been a while since I read YA and this book reminded me how much I enjoyed it.
Cain and Harper pulled me into their orbit real fast and I didn't want to part with them. Cain is presented as this careless jock who only cares about his football career and doesn't have time for girls besides using them and trashing them at his convenience. He and his friends have had this bet going on for the past 3 years, whoever bags 10 girls before graduation gets to own their party room for the whole summer before college. Cain only has one girl left and he wants to win with a bang, literally and figuratively. That's when there's a new girl in school, Harper Posy a girl who stands up to the king of the school without fear, a girl who catches everyone's attention without meaning to, specially Cain's and so she becomes his Tenth Girl, because she will be a challenge and he will have to work for it with her.
However, Cain soon learns that there is much more to Harper behind what meets the eye and he starts being himself around her, letting her see the real him and giving her an in into all sides of his life. In the midst of that, he falls for her but just when things seem perfect, the truth comes out and Cain learns how just how not easy Harper can be.
The Tenth Girl was a very cute and fun love story, portraying all the dramas of high school and of dating a popular jock. Some of the characters are a bit annoying at times but considering this is YA and most high school kids are annoying, naive and stupid, it's pretty accurate lol.
Cain is the typical man whore asshole jock but he wasn't one of those characters that I hated on sight and then came to love. No, I found him intriguing from the start and I really liked his asshole side. What can I say I like bad boys, even more so in books. But he stopped being an asshole pretty fast and I enjoyed watching him fall for Harper without even knowing it, it was fun and sweet.
Harper is going through a lot of changes, with the move, forming a real relationship with her grandmother, her mom finding a new boyfriend who ends up being a good guy but comes with a shitty baggage, and then of course falling in love with Cain. And I love the fact that she is writer and when everything fell apart she put all her focus on achieving her dream instead of being all depressed.
I really enjoyed this book and these characters. It was very sweet and a super light and fluffy read that put a smile on my face.
Author Bio
Author of romance novels such as Red Card and Privileged,
Carrie Aarons writes books that are just as swoon-worthy as they are sarcastic.
A former journalist, she prefers the stories she dreams up, and the yoga pant
dress code, much better.
When she isn’t writing, Carrie is busy binging reality TV, having a love/hate
relationship with cardio, and trying not to burn dinner. She lives in the
suburbs of New Jersey with her husband, daughter and dog.
Carrie Aarons writes books that are just as swoon-worthy as they are sarcastic.
A former journalist, she prefers the stories she dreams up, and the yoga pant
dress code, much better.
When she isn’t writing, Carrie is busy binging reality TV, having a love/hate
relationship with cardio, and trying not to burn dinner. She lives in the
suburbs of New Jersey with her husband, daughter and dog.
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