ContradictionsAuthor: Tiffany King
Series: Woodfalls Girls #3
Published by: Berkley
Publication Date: January 6, 2015
Format: eARC
Pages: 304
Source: Publisher
When everything starts spinning out of control . . .
Three years into college, Tressa Oliver’s life is a nonstop party. She’s skating by in her classes, and there’s no shortage of drinking, dancing, and general hell-raising. The only aspect that hasn’t been much fun: She can’t shake the toxic jerks that always seem to gravitate toward her.
It will take someone totally wrong . . .
Trent Lawson is the classic anti-bad boy: smart, boring, and way too serious. To a wild girl like Tressa, there’s no way in hell they’re compatible—especially since Trent seems to see straight through her defenses.
To set her right.
When a college prank goes terribly wrong, Tressa starts to suspect that her partying ways are leading nowhere fast. Now she has to turn to the last person she ever thought she’d ask for help—and quickly discovers that there’s more to Trent than meets the eye . . .
A hell-raising party girl and a geeky guy? Hell to the yes! I’m all for that combo, so I was excited to read Contradictions. I did like it, but it was missing that something that would set it over the edge for me.
Tressa was my girl from the beginning. I love her funny, sarcastic attitude, and how she’s a big prankster. She starts slacking off her senior year of college, putting more time into partying than studying. When there is a tragic accident during a frat party, it sets in motion some big changes for Tressa. Saddled with academic probation and a tutor, she forced to buckle down.
The tutor? Oh, that’s none other than Trent, the geeky guy who has had a not so subtle crush on Tressa since high school. She doesn’t think they’re compatible, but Trent can be a persuasive and persistent bugger.
I liked Trent, but it was more of the idea of him. There wasn’t much depth to his character, so it was hard to really feel much for him. I think this hampered the romance for me because I just wasn’t feeling any emotions for them. I did enjoy the humorous moments between them, though.
Honestly, Contradictions felt like it was more about Tressa and her growth. I applaud that, because I actually did enjoy that aspect of the book.
Overall, Contradictions was good, but not very memorable.
sorry you didn’t like this book as much, I hope your next read will be an awesome one 🙂 Lovely Review
That is exactly the way I felt about the last Tiffany King book I read. There was humour but the characters and plot lacked depth. OK for a light read but nothing to make it stand out.
I LOVE GEEKY GUYS. They are so much easier to relate to for me and it’s always sweet reading about romances with them in it you know? Great review Christy!
Party girls aren’t my cup of tea, but geeky guy most certainly are, so 1 out of 2 ain’t bad. However, given the amount of character growth that Tressa undergoes in this book, I have a feeling that she’ll succeed in winning me over by the time I read the final page.
That’s a real shame that you were not really feeling Trent’s character and the romance. I was looking forward to this one because the roles were reversed from the usual NA books, but I think I’m better off skipping it.
Great review, Christy!
I’m not sure Tressa is the character for me Christy, I tend to struggle with the party-girl types (I’m much too straight-laced and boring to embrace them ;-), but I do love that a lot of this story focuses on her growth as a person. Too bad the romance didn’t knock your socks off though!
Darn, I was hoping this would have been a little bit “more” I loved the idea of a party girl and geeky guy!
Hot geeks are a rarity, aren’t they? Oh but they make for some interesting bed partners…hehehheeh
Oh miss Popular falls for the geeky guy…yup, those are cute and fun. The only problem is that I’ve got a soft spot for geeky guys so i’d probably falling right along with her LOL
BUT what you’re saying about the romance is a mood killer. I really wish it could have been “more” but love how our main party girl goes through some serious changes. 🙂
I liked this one a bit more than you but yeah I wanted more from Trent. I think having his POV for some of it would have made a huge difference for me.
Sorry you didn’t find this one to be all that great – Tressa sounds awesome; love a sarcastic, witty character.
I love growth in books so I will at least like it. Sometimes good is good enough. 🙂
Bummer, sounds like a cute premise, but too bad Trent missed the mark.
I love geeks, I find them sexier than your usual alpha males. Beauty and brains, can never go wrong with that combo
It’s too bad it was missing the WOW factor. This is an author I’ve been looking forward to reading for AGES. One day…
I love geeks! I should be all over this one, but I need the geek to be bad-ass too!..lol
Thanks Christy 🙂
I have this and book three but not the first. I still want to read them. Sorry this wasn’t as good for you
Sorry this one missed the mark, but I’m glad you still enjoyed it. I recently read The Write Stuff by the same author and really enjoyed it, but it definitely was more of a light fun read and not so much ground-breaking. It focused on the main character’s growth as well.
For a romance, un-deep characters is horrible. I can’t connect with a wall!!!
Sigh. That’s a bit disappointing. I have this book too, and of course I am running behind. I’ll cross my fingers that I like it more, but I find you are usually spot on for what I would think. Except, you know, when you’re totally wrong and I’m totally right.
Where I can see the attraction of a bad boy, geeky and boring justt set my loins on fire, lol! I would totally steal Trent from her >:) And now I want to read this book. Thanks for the review, Christy!
Great to see you loved the growth of the main character. Seems like Tressa had one hell of a journey!