2.5*
The Wrong Things Right: Ace’s Wild by Maxine Keith
⭐⭐🌟
#OutJune27
#NewRelease
‘He smiled uncomfortably. “I brought you home once before.”
“And you remembered?”
“Yep. For some reason, I remember things that are linked with you.” He seemed surprised to admit it.
“Like what?” She was so confused and tired.
“You look tired. Why don’t you rest, Jez? He stood up and moved a pillow under her head.
“Tell me something you know about me.” She said sleepily.
He sighed and pulled the blanket off the back of the sofa. Covering her up with it, he said softly, “I know that you think people don’t see you. But I do.”’
I had such a hard time deciding what to rate this story. I fluctuated between giving it a two star or a three star, so I settled on a two point five. Before I give my reasons for the low review, I just want to say that each and every book is unique to every single person reading it. Just because I couldn’t connect with this particular story, does not mean that many other readers will be the same. This book could be someone’s next favourite.
For me this book had a multitude of issues. As it was an advanced review copy, I rarely take spelling and punctuation into consideration, as it may not have gone to an editor yet, so we're setting that aside. This story started out fairly well. It was reading like any other quintessential New Adult romance for the first couple of chapters, but as we delved further into the story and the array of characters, it started to meander, make less sense, before losing its way entirely. The men in the story were awful. Misogynistic, overbearing, one dimensional and bordering on abusive with how they talked, treated and suffocated the heroine. Her brother, the worst of them all.
Whether it was a product of such stifling male behaviour or whether it was simply poor writing in rounding out of Jez's personality, the heroine was too immature and superficial for me. How she talked, thought, reacted and cried incessantly, made me lose interest in her by the time the first half of the book was over. The other thing that was a hindrance was the fact that she had a plethora of different names that she went by. Bels, Jezebel, Jez, Ace, Princess and Pickle. I had to keep checking it was the same person. There was also the confusion of when Jez donned her ‘Ace’ persona and somehow became this wild, reckless, unrecognizable persona, who also talked and thought about herself as a separate entity, which just came across as bizarre and frankly bordering on a mental health issue. Which is precisely where I thought the story was going. But I was very wrong.
The hero was harder to peg again. I never really understood him, his motives or his actions toward Jez. It was like he showed up, started working for her brother and within a very short space of time he was declaring his eternal love to Jez with very little to connect the pair to begin with.
I just found everything in this book to be a little juvenile. The plot, the characters and even the dialogue. A lot of it seemed out of sync, rushed and incredibly unrealistic. Unfortunately there wasn’t much to redeem the book for me.
TITLE- Wrong Things Right-Ace's Wild
GENRE- Contemporary Romance
DATE OF THE EVENT- 27th June 2020
BLURB
Doing all the wrong things right is what Jezebel specializes in. On the surface, she’s a good girl who works at her family’s business, surfs with her childhood friends, and tries to live in a way that her brother and father would approve of.
Underneath it all though, Jez has several secrets.
She’s not quite the good girl everyone thinks. Jezebel, or Bels as she is known at the street races, is a winner who’s a sure bet. A sure bet that Boone Kingston wants to take.
Wrong Things Right is the story about a girl with many secrets and a man who just can't learn enough about her. But he has secrets too, secrets that are more dangerous than hers.