The Impact of You

by Kendall Ryan

Needing an escape from her past, Avery chooses a college where no one knows her. Keeping a low profile was the plan, falling for the intense frat boy, Jase wasn't. Yet she can't deny how alive she feels when he's near. Even as common sense implores her to stay away, her body begs her to get closer. Jase, numb from his own family drama, has grown bored with weekends fueled by nameless girls and countless bottles when he meets Avery. Helping her cope with her past is better than dealing with the bullshit his own life's served up. Determined to drive away the painful secret she's guarding, he appoints himself her life coach, and challenges her to new experiences. Getting close to her and being the one to make her smile are simply perks of the job. But when Avery's past boldly saunters in, refusing to be forgotten, can Jase live with the truth about the girl he's fallen for?

Recommended for 17+ due to mature themes and sexual content.

Genres: New Adult, Romance, College, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, College Romance, Young Adult

322 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2013

About the author

Kendall Ryan is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of flirty, feel-good romance filled with heart, heat, and plenty of banter. An American author who has lived all over the world, her books have sold millions of copies and been translated into multiple languages. She writes swoony heroes, bold heroines, and stories that make you laugh, blush, and fall in love. When she’s not dreaming up new plotlines, she is a proud mom to two amazing sons and the wife of her real-life hero.


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Reviews

[Monisha]

HOLY HELL!!!
ATTENTION, PEOPLE!!!!!



*******EXCLUSIVE TEASER *******




His eyes grow serious and he leans in toward me, his unique scent of cologne and fabric softener greeting me.

“You sure you’re okay with what happened between us last weekend?”

I swallow. “Why wouldn’t I be?”

I want to appear, cool, effortlessly sexy, and easy going.
Too bad I’m a bundle of nerves, gripping the table in front of me for support, ready to melt into a puddle on the floor with the way Jase is looking at me.

His voice drops an octave lower, “Because I’m willing to lend my services… to extend your assignments into a gray area I’ve nicknamed Operation Avery’s First Orgasm.”
Eek!
I was hoping he’d forgotten that comment I’d made at the coffee shop, but clearly he hasn’t.
I clamp my thighs together and remind myself to breath.

There are no words for the tingles Jase can send through my body with only his deep, sexy voice.

“You okay?” He takes my hand and absently traces his thumb across my palm.
“Breath for me, okay.”
I pull in a ragged breath, still unable to speak.
His cocky smile is back. “Just think about it, babe.”
I manage a nod.
Jase takes a sip from his coffee, his eyes still watching mine over the brim of the cup.
“There’s something I don’t understand,” he says, running a hand through his messy hair.
“You said you had a high school boyfriend, and you guys were pretty serious…”
Oh God, I can’t have him asking questions about Brent.
“Uh huh.”
“And yet, you’ve never…” He raises his eyebrows. “So I take it you guys never messed around?”
I feel like I’m having an out of body experience.
I can’t believe Jase wants to talk my past…love life, or lack thereof. This is crazy.
I feel like I’m floating above us, watching, preparing to witness my demise. “We experimented a little, but never had sex.”
He frowns. “And no orgasms for you?”
“Why are you so obsessed with my non-orgasmic status? Some girls just don’t have them, okay?”
“Um, no. That is most definitely not okay with me.”
I roll my eyes. “Madison said I probably would have if he… never mind.” I need a muzzle. Seriously, I should be shot. The things he’ll get me to admit to….
Jase pins me with an icy glare. “If he what?”
“Used his mouth,” I squeak out. It wasn’t actually how she’d put it, but I wouldn’t use those rude words to describe it.

“And he wouldn’t?” Jase’s eyes widen.

I shake my head. “He said he didn’t do that.”
Jase throws his head back in disgust, groaning as his eyes roll back in his head. “Any guy who has a policy against that is a fucking idiot.”
The nervous waves crashing inside me erupt into an all-out frenzy with this information. Jase’s opinion on oral sex shouldn’t ignite my sex-drive, make my skin tingle, or heat my lady parts, yet that’s exactly what happens.
His expression grows dark, more serious as he leans in closer. “Baby, if you let me, I wouldn’t come up for a week.”
Holy. Crap.




WTF was that??? *epic swoon*

OH.MY.GOD.

NEED THIS NOW!!!!!

[*J* Too Many Books Too Little Time · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ugh...I was so close to DNF'in this book. I thought about it several times. At about the 50% mark I just started skimming. I didn't care anymore.

This was my fourth Kendall Ryan book, and IMO they just seem to be getting worse. This was an attempt at almost every other NA book out there, only this one just wasn't very good.

So let's see....

virgin heroine--check
heroine is hiding a secret from her past--check
gay best friend--check
hero is the campus slut--check
insta love--check
hero has a troubled past--check

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Avery, our heroine, has run from her past. She's a sophomore in college. The story begins at a party (shocking) where Avery meets Jase. Jase is the campus slut....but he wants to be different. Avery is different. She's not like all of the other girls. She makes him want to be better. He wants to do things "right" with her. Yeah...that's original.



Jase decides he's going to be Avery's life coach. Avery makes herself out to be this innocent virginal scaredy-cat. She always kept Jase at a distance.....saying she wasn't ready, that she just wanted to be friends. Once I found out what her big secret was....her behavior just seemed to be over the top to me. I don't know what the big deal was??

The story was all about Avery trying to "live" a little. Come out of her shell....open up, try new things. Which made no sense based on her past. All of this, with the help of Jase.

I don't know. I never connected with the story or the characters. KR's books are short so I don't think there is ever enough chracter or story development. Plus the sex was just meh....and we all know that's a deal breaker for me.

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 Sexy Stars!

Kendall Ryan knows how to write a hot NA book! She has proved that over and over again! This book is no exception... Oh my Jase.



Avery is going to college, living life, but she is not really living. She is going to a school where know one knows her. She won’t get too close to anyone. There is something in her past she can’t get out, so she keeps to herself. She keeps her distance from everyone, except her two best friends. But even they don’t know about her past.

Getting close to people means running the risk of exposing my past. And that’s not okay with me.



Then one night, she meets Jase.


Jase is a popular guy. He has quite a reputation, lives in the frat house, you get the drift. But something traumatic has happened with Jase’s family, and random girls and partying don’t hold the same appeal they used to. When he sees Avery, he is immediately enamored by her. He can tell she is different. They slowly develop a friendship. Avery is hesitant to trust Jase, to open up to him. She is able to talk to him about a lot of things, but not the big secret of her past.

“You wouldn’t like me if you knew more about my past.”

Jase just wants to spend more time with Avery. The more time he spends with her, the less empty he feels. He decides to become her Life Coach, he gives her challenges to come out of her shell. Really, he just likes being with her.

When I’m with Avery I don’t think about the pile of crap that is my life. How crazy everything’s become. She’s like the fresh start I didn’t even know I needed.

They are in class together, and spend a lot of time just hanging out. They both start to have feelings for one another, but Avery is not ready to be with anyone. She isn’t sure if she ever will be.

“Just give me a chance to show you how good we could be together.”

Did I mention that Jase has a bitch of an ex-girlfriend? Well, he does. She somehow finds out about Avery’s secret and lets the cat out of the bag. Jase is hurt. He’s upset, but mostly he is not happy he had to hear it from someone else. Just as the two of them were starting to get closer to taking the plunge, will Avery’s past tear them apart?

I hate living with regret- having something I can never take back.

This is what I always feared. Getting close to someone, and then having it ripped away from me once my secret came out.

Things I loved about this book: The friendship that grew between Jase and Avery. Sure, they had a connection right away, but it was sweet and slow... at first. Jase knew what he wanted and he went for it. I just loved him. Another positive, a heroine that wasn't all that annoying! Sure she was secretive and standoffish, but she had reason to be. I wish she would have trusted Jase and told him her secret, but I understand why she didn’t. If it were me, I wouldn’t want anyone knowing that about me either. And this one was HOT and STEAMY- no surprise there.



I am a Kendall Ryan fan, so I figured I would like this one. If you are looking for something quick (I read for a little over 2.5 hours straight and finished it in one night :D), sweet, and steamy- this may be your next read!

[Dre · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book wasn't as good as the others I've read by this author. I was very disappointed with the way Jase treated Avery after finding out about the pictures esp considering his womanizing past. So she took some pictures with an ex, and he was a scumbag who showed them around and they got out. Why does that make her the slut?! She loved him, so it was her ex who was the douche for telling her he loved her and cared about her to get her to take those pictures only to show them to his buddies and let them get out to the public! It's really awful how women who sleep around or have erotic pictures taken of themselves(even though Avery didn't sleep around) get labeled sluts; meanwhile, the guys who lie to the girls about their feelings and then leak the pictures are never held responsible or deemed sluts or have their reputations ruined. It's an awful double standard, and sadly, it is real. Things like this happen all of the time in the real world. I felt really badly for Avery when Jase stopped talking to her, only to toss her away when she tried to talk to him about it, and I really wish she would have made him work harder to get her back!

[Akanksha❤ Søren♰]

This looks good :D
and then I think.. *I WANT THIS NOW!!!*

but then I see June! x_x

Needing an escape from her past, Avery chooses a college where no one knows her. Keeping a low profile was the plan, falling for the intense frat boy, Jase wasn’t. Yet she can’t deny how alive she feels when he’s near. Even as common sense implores her to stay away, her body begs her to get closer.

Jase, numb from his own family drama, has grown bored with weekends fueled by nameless girls and countless bottles when he meets Avery. Helping her cope with her past is better than dealing with the bullshit his own life’s served up. Determined to drive away the painful secret she’s guarding, he appoints himself her life coach, and challenges her to new experiences. Getting close to her and being the one to make her smile are simply perks of the job.

But when Avery’s past boldly saunters in, refusing to be forgotten, can Jase live with the truth about the girl he’s fallen for?

[yueting ♡]

I keep getting this book mixed up with Wait for You by J. Lynn. The female protagonist in that is also called Avery, and there's also a Jase in that book. It doesn't help that the themes seem pretty similar.
Still looking forward to this one nonetheless!

[Syndi · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF

I know this is NA book. I try to put my mind set into NA. With all of their curiosity about life, sex, self discovery, friends or foe, social awkward, college etc. But this book really boring! I feel like I am sitting in the very boring classroom and the lecturer super duper boring that nothing click.

The plot, the story the characters.... nothing click with me. By 60% I want to drop to sleep listening to the audio book. I do not even want to know the ending.

2 stars

[Kelly 'Perusing Princesses blog' · Rating 5 out of 5]

BOOK REVIEW: The Impact of you – Kendall Ryan

My Kendall Ryan cherry has been well and truly popped by this remarkable new-adult college romance. Its had a rather gratifying ‘impact’ on me, simply due to one notoriously naughty but delectable character…
Jase. <3

My inner cougar has been unleashed and she is roaring in ecstasy…
because of Jase. <3

This has got to be one of my favourite college based romance dramas, EVER,
because of Jase. <3

It’s no secret that college romances are becoming synonymous in the YA/NA world and yet I can’t help but allow myself to be enticed within the riveting moments of that ‘first’ falling in-love experience and boy oh boy did Kendall Ryan deliver!
Because…
Have you guessed it, yet?
Yep!
…BECAUSE OF JASE! <3

If Kendall Ryan has a ‘writers appreciative club for ‘sexiest’ college fictionist male,’ then for heavens sake, SIGN.ME.UP!

*

The Impact of You opens its literary pages with Avery, an adopted nineteen-year-old, (with two dads), whom is subjected to the hellish of all college experiences – a frat party! The loud music, the booze, the sexual ‘air filled’ tension, the half clad girls seeking male affection…all too reminiscent of a high-school life she left behind.

“Thirty minutes into my first college party, and I’m ready to smack someone in the face with a shovel.” <- Chapter 1, opening sentence. ;)

Attending college miles away from her hometown; her reasons apparently clear… she is running. Hiding from a past event that turned her from a fun-loving, popular high-school teenager to a young woman who now hides behind long auburn locks and two extrovert friends.

When ‘the pretty one’ walks in, in the form of Jase, a renowned playboy, she doesn’t want his predatory stare to have ‘that’ affect on her. Warm tingling heat and tummy flutters are a distraction she doesn’t need! High-tailing it out the back door for some fresh air, it’s not long before Jase follows on her heels and initiates friendly conversation.

When Jase spots a nervous Avery hiding behind a dumpster at college a few days later, he plays his role valiantly when he rescues her, and takes her back to his place. All goes swimmingly well… until the Ex walks in!

Jase knows that behind this broken young girl is someone who once lived life to the full as she admits to a shady past but refuses to divulge any details. In the hope to reviving that hidden spark, he takes it upon himself to become her life coach, giving her challenges to push her comfort zone. As they spend increasingly more time together, acquaintances turn to friendship, based purely on a level of trust and honesty. However, it soon becomes apparent that Jase and Avery stumble onto all-new territory when they finally succumb to the realisation they are attracted to one-another.

Jase welcomes the challenge of being with one girl… and the distraction - anything to help ease the heartache and take his mind away from his mother’s recent actions…

But what happens when the person you fall in-love with, the best friend you thought you knew was hiding a terrible secret? A secret so bad, it made them flee far from their home and hide, to the extent of trembling behind dumpsters?

When a person from Avery’s past reveals her ultimate secret, Avery and Jase are met with yet another challenge, but at only nineteen, are they really ready to deal with the consequences, together?

*

This book is a little diamond, its facets crafted with brilliant precision. A well-rounded, fast paced story with witty dialogue and heart-stopping moments makes for a riveting tale as we are treated to double first person narrative between both protagonists, Avery and Jase.

Jase…
Oh I know! I sound like a 19 year old virgin stalker with horny ovaries. I can’t help it and neither will you when you are subjected to quotes like this:

“Avery is unlike any girl I’ve hung around before. She keeps me in a constant state of curiosity and mild arousal. It’s an interesting combination – both my brain and my dick are engaged, which is something new for me.”

“Okay…so you liked the kiss.”
I nod
“And your body was practically begging me to continue…” His fingertips lightly graze my bare thigh. “Which means I’m completely confused.”
I swallow a wave of nerves, biting my lip but make no move to explain.
“Say it, Avery. Tell me this is okay. You’re not like other girls I’ve been with, and I fucking love that, but I’m totally unsure what to do here.”

"I will possess you baby, and when I do, it’ll be worth the wait.”

This is a story of friendship between two lost and unhappy souls; one that blossoms so beautifully into affection and love, and yet there is just enough snippets of back-story and sub-plots to keep it interesting and highly entertaining.

Fans of ‘Wait for you by J. Lynn’ will want to pick this up.

Buy it!!!

5 STARS.

[Annie Brewer]

Ummm can I have this now please?! Gah, it sounds friggin' fraggin' amazing! Not to mention, the name Jase....HAWT!!!!!! Jace, Jase....potato, pototo. I want!!!!

[Misha Ahuja · Rating 2 out of 5]

yeah… NO.

[Brandie · Rating 5 out of 5]

ARC provided by the author for an honest review.

Another fantastic book by Kendall Ryan! I love every single word this woman writes because she makes her characters relatable, and manages to incorporate everything I love in a good NA romance.

Jase is working through his own demons from his past. From appearances – he’s just a good-looking frat boy who sleeps around and lives a care free life. But there is so much MORE to Jase – he was every woman’s dream - sweet, protective, hilarious, & hot. He meets Avery and wants nothing more than to get to know her, by offering to be her ‘life coach’.

But what Jase finds when he starts to spend more time with Avery, is that she’s also dealing with her own demons and he’ll do anything to help her get past them.

Avery went through something pretty traumatic and wants nothing more than to bury her secret and move forward with her life. She decides moving away and keeping her distance from people is the route to go - but that secret will come back to haunt her and threaten her relationship with Jase.

The beauty of this story is the friendship that builds between Jase and Avery FIRST. This isn’t an insta-love. Jase genuinely likes Avery and wants to be her friend. He knows she’s guarded and hurt and instead of pushing her to get what he wants (although he’s definitely fighting his attraction to her), he sets out to just BE there for her. It is the sweetest, most romantic thing! Yes there is serious hotness between these two (because, let’s face it – Kendall Ryan KNOWS how to bring on the HEAT). Their love and friendship is what made this story so incredible. And it’s that suspense and build-up of sexual tension that will keep you turning the pages frantically!

I loved every minute of this book. I dropped everything I was reading when I got it and devoured it in 2 days. Kendall Ryan just has that ability to suck me in and fall in love with her characters. And you’ll find it impossible not to love Jase!

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve owned this book for over two years and I have no idea why I waited so long to finally read it. But fresh off of experiencing Screwed, I dove right in.

Avery is trying to escape her past, keeping her head down in at a college where no one knows her past. She’s mastered blending into the background but that is all about to change when she catches the eye of Jase, college man-whore, who might just give her ability to hide behind a mask a run for its money.

When an encounter at a frat party places these two sitting next to one another sharing secrets in the dark, it’s over for Jace. He knows he wants to know more about this girl. This girl that is everything different than what he usually wants. But for Avery, her past might not be as buried as she wants it to be.

The Impact of You was a very sweet and emotional New Adult Romance. I loved this story hard. The friends to lovers dynamic. The shy girl hiding, the whoring college guy that really isn’t at all what he seems.... It’s storyline that is not altogether new, but it is a formula that works. And Kendall Ryan gives her own spin to it.

It was impossible not to fall in love with these two characters. I loved watching them slowly become closer than just friends. The way Jase knew he wanted her but how he had to tread carefully. Avery’s story was a sad one, but I think she came through it all with flying colors. Stronger in the end for it.

A fantastic quick read that again, delivered in all the right ways!

[Alexis *Reality Bites* · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 STARS! Review to come!

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok so I'll say it again....I LOVE Kendall Ryan books. This is no exception. I started reading this as soon as I saw it was released EARLY and I didn't stop until I was finished. I will say that in Kendall Ryan fashion...This book was a quick read, but by no means does this book feel rushed. I actually loved the flow and pace of this book. Nothing was rushed or instant and it didn't drag out to where you could get bored. I really liked the speed of Jase and Avery' s relationship. I enjoyed that they took the time to get to know each other and didn't rush into the physical aspect of the relationship to quickly. I also really liked that Avery stuck to her guns when it came to Jase and didn't let other people talk her out if getting to know him...just because he had a player background. I was thrilled at the end when Avery realized that her past doesn't define who she is and that she could get past it.

I would definitively recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of Kendall Ryan. I am really looking forward to her next book Working It.

[Sali · Rating 4 out of 5]

As i was a beta reader on this for kendall my final star rating will go up after the edits have been made :)
as it stands tho its close to a 4.5*


WOW !!!!
Just ....ummm.... WOW KENDALL !!!!

Every freakin book u just amaze me !!!

Kendall has branched out into the NEW ADULT genre with this 1 & she did it EFFORTLESSLY !!!!

I CAN NOT wait to hear the squeals of delight from readers everywhere on release day !!!

[Monica Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved loved loved. But I'm a Kendall Ryan fan-slash-stalker of Kendall so this is no surprise. Really enjoyed Jase and Avery's story.

[Camila · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es un libro para pasar el tiempo. Not big deal.

[Karla Mae (Reads and Thoughts) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Virginal heroine = check
Playboy hero but retired when he met the heroine = check
Girl has dark secrets from the past =check
Guy has his own daddy issues and a loving mom = check
One complicated mess of a relationship = double check

Sounds familiar? This thing seems to be the outline for New Adult stories these days. I didn’t tick these things off because I didn’t like them; it’s just that this story has been built EXACTLY that way, the very same way as to how other stories are. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading these types of stories but sometimes you just love it, sometimes you don’t and sometimes its all just so so. The Impact of You belongs into my category of so so, as much as I like the story I’m itching for the whole story itself to give me something new, a certain twist that would make it a bit different from the others.

She's trying to run from her past while he's trying to discover his future.

Avery has no intention of going to a party more so into meeting someone. But she simply wanted to appease her friends. Avery is your classic virginal type of heroine that loathes boys and parties. Yes, I like her but I don't know, I just can't seem to go through her. She has this secret which basically lies through out the story, but that certain secret upon being published still left me a bit disturbed.
She's a virgin but she did give a go signal to her ex-boyfriend to take those kinds of pictures? She isn’t drunk when she agreed to did those right?
The secret being out also gives me an idea as to why she was running and why she was afraid to run into another relationship.

Jase is another sweetheart of a character. He's another dream boyfriend that I think everyone wants. Like Avery he has no intention of meeting someone for he's content on living his bachelor days and looking out for his mom. But when a renowned playboy like him shows affection to Avery, I can’t help but feel so swoony over him.

Despite the story flow being all too familiar, I still can't get over the fact that I'm still hooked on scenes where they go from friends into something more. I love that certain part in the relationship of the characters. Avery and Jase is both clearly scared as to where they were heading but I guess that’s the thing that keeps me hanging on stories like this - the path that lead them to their happy ever after. From strangers to lovers yearning for understanding and connection and finding people that would accept them despite their flaws and insecurities. I did like the complicated mess they both created.

I'm a fan of Kendall Ryan for I've read all of her novels and try to catch up with her new releases and I'm so used now to the way she constructs her stories. The Impact of You offers to us a story that we're so used to know now and it was another great one from the author. The story gives us this certain ideology that the person that we least expect could give us the greatest impact that could awaken us from the slumber that were into. I’m just left wishing for this story to have a more distinctive feature within it that would left its reader a one of a kind impact.

[Zandra]

witweew!

[Katarina Silva · Rating 2 out of 5]

Review On: NOVA Reviews


For Pete's sake, whistle? Really? What a romantic nickname, if a guy I liked called me whistle it would not end well.

But okay. So there is this typical manwhore who spots this oh-so-timid girl standing awkwardly at a party and he immediately feels the connection between them both and feels how they are two damaged souls that do not fit in that scenario. Cliche? Just wait for the next part.

The girl (Avery) has a big secret that led to her necessity to hide beneath dumpsters when she feels like her secret is about to slip and this "secret" is the thing that will dominate the whole book just to get to the end and it isn't that big of a deal. Yes it was a mistake but let it go! So the guy (Jase) gives her a whistle for her to call whenever she's in trouble. Are you serious? What are we, five?

He looks at me like he knows me all too well, like he sees I’m an imposter. Maybe it’s because he’s hiding something too.

Jase, like we needed another greek god hanging around. Isn't there tons of those in the literary world? But some are original which is not Jase's case. He is as predictable as they come. Yes, he is good looking, yes he may be a guy that screwed anything on sight and now is trying to redeem himself of his bad ways but he has nothing of interest! His personality is as interesting as a brick wall and his ability to be mad at Avery's secret, even though she had nothing to do with it, is dreadful.

“I know.” Everyone always freaks over my eyelashes for some damn reason. It’s embarrassing. -This is quote said by JASE!



Avery had everything going her way until that awful moment she opened her mouth to say that she was never going to date a manwhore and could not in every reason get close to him. But then she did. Many times. That ruined the whole Thing. Avery is the all-too-been-there-than-that good girl who doesn't do parties, doesn't drink, does not screw random guys and is very serious about her academical life. How great is that? The problem is that it created no interest in her character. She had no flaws but that one mistake in junior year, ain't that interesting? No. One thing I liked was her relationship with her dad's (She has two) because she was adopted and we didn't even met them. Bummer.



What's wrong with guys and bad girls? They don't get a chance? I Loved Stacia and if the book was about her and Trey it would be much more interesting and not half as awkward. And what's with Jase? Isn't he supposed to be popular and a bad boy? Then why do we only get to know ONE of his friends and the only thing scary about him was that he was unrealistically perfect?



The Impact of you had elements that could have made a great book but it was a mess this way. I Liked Kendall Ryan type of writing, always to the point and easy going but the stopping points and mood swings drove me crazy.

[Alba M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Avery está huyendo de su pasado, un pasado que incluye malas decisiones. Ahora ella es una chica nerviosa, tímida y que se siente incómoda en las fiestas. Eso es hasta que conoce a Jase. Jase está empeñado en hacer salir a Avery de su caparazón, pero ella tiene miedo de si salir implicará que sus secretos salgan con ella...

Iba muy bien el libro, me estaba encantando hasta que llegamos a la llamada "parte del drama". Hasta ahí, ame a Jase porque era un cachito de pan, y a Avery porque parecía que con él florecía, pero entonces Jase se volvió un imbécil de mierda.

LA SIGUIENTE RAZON CONTIENE SPOILERS, SI NO HAS LEIDO EL LIBRO NO CONTINÚES. AVISARÉ CUANDO TERMINEN LOS SPOILERS.
Bueno, al drama. El drama es que, en el instituto Avery tenía un novio. Las chicas a veces somos un poco confiadas, así que Avery fue una de ellas y le dejó a su novio sacarle fotos mientras hacían...cositas. Pero el hijo de puta dice que solo se las enseñó a unos amigos cuando ellos rompieron (MEEEEEHHHHH!!!!! ERROR!!!!!!! ESE ES EL PUTO RESPETO QUE LE TENIAS A TU PAREJA???? Idiota!) pero milagrosamente también acabaron siendo enviadas a todos sus compañeros del instituto. Bien, ahora entonces, yo tampoco le contaría a nadie sobre eso, el pasado es pasado y que una persona que me amaba y me respetaba compartiese nuestra intimidad no es algo que tenga que contarle a nadie. Es pasado punto. Bueno pues un par de perras en este libro se lo cuentan y enseñan a Jase y... Reacción de él? Asqueado de Avery. AS QUE A DO! Increíble, perdona, vienes ahora tu dando lecciones de moral el maldito hombre puto que se folló a medio campus? JA JA Y JA. Me parto y me mondo. Esa es una de las razones por las que no tenía derecho a juzgarla y segundo que lo que Avery había hecho con su ex no era para tanto, básicamente porque seguía siendo virgen a día de hoy así que EXCUSE MEEEEEE!!!??? Por qué el asco y el rechazo Jase? EXPLICAMELO PEQUEÑA MIERDA! No pude perdonarlo, a diferencia de Avery, porque además él nunca la dejó explicarse simplemente se sentó allí y la miró con todo el desprecio y el asco del mundo diciendo que solo iba a ver esas fotos de ella eternamente, y que no sabía quién era ella que le había mentido y que ya no la conocía. RABIA ABSOLUTA QUE ME ENTRA Y GANAS DE ABOFETEARLO HASTA QUE ME DUELA LA MANO. Pero espera por favor, que don ministro de la moral, después de esto, de despedir a Avery y decirle que se acabó, coge y se mete en la cama con su ex. LA MORAL DONDE TE QUEDÓ AHI JASE?? EH?

FIN DEL SUPER SPOILER.

En fin, después de mi desahogo absoluto, que buena falta me hacía, decir que eliminando el drama estúpido y absurdo, el libro era perfecto y dulce. Me encantaban ellos juntos y todo lo demás. Es un libro cortito y fácil de leer.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a quick and somewhat predictable romance. Avery goes off to college to escape the drama that she left behind in high school. She is in college now and keeping a low profile. She is not a party girl. One night her friends talk her into going to a frat party. She finds herself catching the eye of notorious womanizer, Jase.

Jase is hot as can be and can get any girl on campus. Something about Avery catches his eye and he finds himself wanting to help her fit in. She is vulnerable and he wants to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Avery is keeping secrets. She doesn't want anyone in her new school to know about her past.

Avery and Jase are in a Human Sexuality class together. *Ahem.* He decides to take the timid Avery and help her come out of her shell.

When Jase finds out about Avery's past, he feels betrayed. He had no idea what she was hiding from him.

Avery finds her past coming back to haunt her.

Jase has to decide whether or not he can live with Avery's past. He may have to accept her for who she is to be with the green eyed girl he's falling for.

So this is where I didn't totally love this book but only liked it. There is the typical double standard. The man whore can be a man whore and everyone just calls him "experienced". The girl has a few experiences and she is labeled a slut. Very frustrating. I wanted to like this book more but it wasn't great for me. This author is quite accomplished and other people liked this book so perhaps it is just me. The average rating on Goodreads is 3.8.

Overall a good read, not stellar but not tragic. 3 stars.

[Paula Phillips · Rating 4 out of 5]

Have you ever picked up a book and had major deja vu moments and you can swear that you have read this book before? For me, as I write reviews on the books I have read, and I have a perfect memory for the books I have read ever since I was younger. I knew I hadn't read this particular book, but as I was going through the novel, I couldn't shake off the feeling that this book was so damn familiar to me. In The Impact of You by Kendall Ryan, we meet Avery who is trying to escape her past and picked a college away from everyone from her old life. She wants to start fresh and becomes the opposite person that she had been in high school. Jase is back at school after taking off sometime when his mother became ill. He is intrigued by Avery and wants to get to know her more, Avery though knows the type that Jase in and doesn't want anything to do with him. However, Jase is the persistent type, and soon Avery and Jase start to spend more time together as friends and become close. Avery finally starts to let down her walls and relax, but what happens when her past comes back and slams her in the face. Will Jase and her new friends judge her for her high school antics? Or will Jase realize that Avery wasn't really in the wrong and that everyone deserves a second chance especially since she is trying so hard to change? If you want a New Adult College romance, then The Impact of You by Kendall Ryan is the read for you.

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I started The Impact of You it was 11ish on a work night. I started with the intention of only reading one chapter..but we ALL know how that goes, I did behave though and read up to chapter 5 before I finally called it a night. I promised myself I'd start reading earlier the next night because I was determined to finish. Fast forward to the next night at midnight...I picked up at chapter 5 and read straight through until I was done at 3 a.m. my 6 o'clock alarm be damned lol!
It was WELL WORTH the loss of sleep!


Ok suffice it to say I REALLY liked the story of Avery of Jase. I'm telling you Avery's secret was a doozy too!
But no more on that subject, you'll just have to find out for yourself...but it was scandalous...possibly...

Anyhoo, I loved Avery's personality, by the end of the very first sentence; she had me with

“Thirty minutes into my first college party, and I’m ready to smack someone in the face with a shovel”


I laughed out loud in bed and thought "She's my kind of girl"
She has absolutely no interest being at that party, she only went to appease her two best friends; Madison & Noah. She just wanted to blend in, make it through this party and get the hell home. The last thing on her mind was meeting someone, especially not Jase or as Madison referred to him,

"Man candy at 2 o'clock"


Jase had no intentions of meeting anyone either but when the pretty dark haired girl in the corner caught his
eye he couldn't help but be in intrigued. He noticed she was different from the start and in a good way, she
didn't have her T & A on display for all the world to see. That alone made him want to get to know her.
One of the things I liked with these two is that there was no instant love, hell, it didn't even seem like instant like between them!

“She seems mildly annoyed…bothered by my presence. It’s not the usual effect I have on females.”

It was a front though, Avery totally thought Jase was hot. Her past and her secrets keep her guarded and make her hesitant to get close to people. Jase thought she was pretty plus he respected her and how she didn't fall all over him like most girls do. Seeing the relationship develop between them was one of my favorite parts, I loved watching them go from friends and seeing it develop into something more and their inner thoughts about each other were something we all could relate to at some point in our lives. They were both so nervous with each other at times, Avery was nervous about what would happen when she told Jase her secret and Jase was nervous because the feelings he felt towards Avery he had never felt for a girl before. Again, you're able to relate to them navigating uncharted territory. I loved Jase, he wasn't the kind of guy everyone made him out to be. He was sweet, he was thoughtful and when it came to Avery he was patient; even as her life coach he never pressured her to do something she wasn't ready for. He knew he had to take things slow with her and he was willing to go as slow as she needed. The last thing he wanted to do was mess things up between them. *sigh* he really fell hard for her...

The Impact of You truly was a fantastic book teaching us that sometimes the person you least expect can be the very person to make the biggest (positive) impact in your life if you just give that person a chance, not to mention you may meet them when you least expect it. It also showed us not to put people on pedestals; no one is perfect. In his head Jase had built Avery up to be this perfect person without fault so when her secret finally did come out it completely changed his opinion of her. He forgot she's human and was young and dumb once and did some stupid things. He's done some stupid things too...Was Jase more angry about her past or the fact Avery wasn't the perfect person he made he out to be...

I give it 4.5 stars

**I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review**

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have read a few books by this author but her last one I was disappointed with and this one was just boring.

19 year old Avery chooses a college where no one knows her because of something that happened in her past. When she meets frat boy Jase she is interested in him but only as friends. Jase used to be a bit of a manwhore but a family drama has taken up much of his time and now he has decided he doesn't want to continue the lifestyle he had although an ex girlfriend of his is rather persistent (and who I actually felt sorry for at some points!).

Jase decides he will be Avery's Life Coach. He senses she is withdrawn and urges her to experinence new challenges. Avery is worried when she sees a girl from her past that her secret is going to come out. When it does, it's a bit sudden and a bit of an anti-climax.

I don't know what the author was thinking with this book. It feels like a debut novel. Nothing really happens. It's boring. There is no connection between Avery and Jase and I didn't believe in their love story. I also found Jase's nickname for Avery irritating.

My main issue is the lack of dialogue with other characters. Avery was adopted by two men. They appear in the book but not in dialogue form. We learn nothing of how it was to be brought up by two men as if this isn't an unusual situation. Jase encourages her to search for her birth mother and even their meeting lacks much dialogue. I would have liked to know why her birth mother gave her up for adoption. It all seemed a bit unrealistic to me. Avery's roomates don't get much dialogue nor do Jase's frat brothers. It's all just really odd how most of the other characters are just glossed over. It just seems very amateurish and not what I would expect from an established author who I presume knows the rule 'show don't tell'.

This author normally writes quite steamy romances. I understand this is a NA and so she has very much tamed down the sex but the little there is was again...boring!

I was disappointed in this book which also had some errors in it considering it's supposed to have been edited. For an established author this was a real let down.

[Chelcie Dacon · Rating 5 out of 5]

"you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough" Mae West

A bad boy who loves his mom? oh lord, I'm done for.

Tall, blonde messy sex hair, blue eyes and a rocken body, what else do you need?

Jase is sex on a stick

I love books about kids in college. Maybe because I never went, so i never experienced dating and drinking. So i am living threw these books. I LOVED THIS BOOK From the very first page to the very last page.

SHIT FUCK

I dont think i have ever highlighted so many lines while reading a book. Avery and Jace had such great chemistry. Its like they just clicked.

" I can't deny that watching a mother and child lay eyes on eachother for the first time in nineteen years doesnt pull at something deep iside me" swoony worthy Jase. Just awwwww.

if i had a guy tell me Im going to open you up in more ways than one babe" my panties would melt on the spot. Just spontanious combustion right fucking there.

Jase was witty, intelligent and just mmmmm yummyness. The stuff that comes out of his mouth had me bent over with laughing cramps

"Friends" great. "of Course" blue balls here i come
friends apparently dont rub their erections against their friends stomachs. My bad


best 2 lines of the book

"Any guy who has a policy against that is a fucking idiot." his expression grows dark, more serious and he leans in closer " baby, if you let me, I wouldn't come up for a week "
i mean come one thats fucking hot right. I need a little jase to rub off on my hubby.

[Jessica Hull · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up this book today because a question was floating around social media where a reader was trying to find "the book where the character blah blah blah..." and someone commented that she thought it was this book. Well, since I definitely wanted to read "the book where the character blah blah blah..." I one clicked on the spot. Unfortunately this turned out not to be that book. I could tell early on it wasn't the book in question but still, I bought the book, so I read it in one sitting. I could also tell early on that this book wasn't going to work for me but mama didn't raise no quitter so I pushed on and read the whole thing anyway. Needless to say, it was disappointing. The drama was forced, the character behavior/reactions were childish and inauthentic. It was very "been there, done that" college drama. I never believed in the chemistry and it just didn't work. I'm still hoping "the book where the character blah blah blah" is out there somewhere because I love juicy angst and flawed characters and authentic emotion and I didn't find it here in The Impact of You.

[Trisha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just ignore my rating
as usual, I struggle with the New Adult genre and tend to dislike more than I like them.

unfortunately, this one falls under the "didn't like." I just didn't connect, understand or like the main characters. So, my dislike definitely changed my whole experience of the story.

[♥Trish♥]

It's live on Amazon!! :)

[Talltree]

DNF couldn't get past sample.

Also H fights with h and gets BJ from OW Not for me.