Real was my introduction to narrator Charlotte Penfield. Even then, I found it anticlimactic, and I wondered why he just didn’t come clean in the beginning, saving everyone a whole lot of angst. There is a reason for this behavior, although it isn’t revealed until about the midway point. Instead, he acts insanely jealous, throws temper tantrums that end up costing him thousands of dollars in restitution, and gets drunk whenever he can. He says things like “I want you to know me first” yet doesn’t help Brooke to do this. While some is believable, I found Remington’s unwillingness to act on it really frustrating. There’s a profusion of sexual tension between Brooke and Remington. He hires her for a three-month period, an offer Brooke gladly accepts. Instead, she moved on to get a degree in sports medicine which makes her quite useful to Remington. She doesn’t wallow in what might have been, which is definitely a point in her favor. Yet, no matter how hard she tries, she can’t deny her attraction to him.īrooke had dreams of becoming an Olympic runner but an injury put an end to all that. Now, he works the underground circuit, making a fortune, and earning himself quite the reputation as a “bad boy”, something Brooke thinks is fine for a one night stand, but a little less fine if she’s thinking about forever. Remington Tate was a professional boxer until his temper got him banned from the sport. One night, Brooke is urged by her best friend to attend an underground boxing match, an event that changes her life in ways she never imagined possible.
She’s living in what she calls the “real world”, looking for a job, and hanging out with her friends.
With that in mind, I agreed to review Real, a seriously popular New Adult title in both print and audio formats.īrooke has just graduated from college. Still, I decided to try a few others and realized they aren’t all bad. After reading Sophie Jordan’s Foreplay, I was pretty sure I was done with the New Adult genre.
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