Fake Boobs by Ryan Ringbloom Pages: 264
Published by Createspace Independent Pub on February 4, 2015
Genres: Coming of Age, contemporary, Love & Romance, New Adult
Tori Albert is eighteen but her confidence level is zero. Her life experience…also zero. She’s a girl lost in the shuffle, hiding in the shadows, craving attention. If only someone, anyone, would notice her, maybe life would improve.
Grant Donovan can’t stop noticing Tori, but she is young, inexperienced and naïve. She is also his best friend’s younger sister. Grant knows the best thing he can do is just walk away. So why the hell isn’t he walking away?
When a late night knock lands across her bedroom door, Tori knows what stands behind it could end in disaster…but how many times does opportunity come knocking?
Just when she thinks her luck is finally changing, things take an unexpected turn for the worse.
With new assets and a new goal in sight, Tori will soon learn her new found confidence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Unfortunately, some things you just have to learn the hard way.
Fake Boobs is a standalone new adult contemporary. And before we even get started, yes it is about fake boobs, but it is really about the larger picture of self esteem issues. I went back and forth with this book a little bit. There were a lot of things that I liked about the book, Fake Boobs, but there were a few things that rubbed me the wrong way. And not just about the main character, Tori. After I was done reading I sat back and tried to sort out my thoughts on the book and I kept coming back to the same thing, that the positive outweighed my annoyances.
So let’s talk about the positive. I really liked Grant and Tori together. I liked the big picture of their relationship. I was very happy with the way everything left off, and I was happy that Grant wouldn’t put up with Tori’s nonsense, and at the same time he was more there for her than anyone else in her life was. I thought that Tori’s journey was relate able and no matter how misguided she may have been, it was something that I think a lot of young women and teens would benefit from reading about. Sure, she had a very distorted view of herself and she made lots and lots of bad decisions, and she bugged me multiple times but it was all a part of her self discovery and self growth. She bugged me in the moment, but when I stepped back I found that I actually liked Tori quite a lot. And I loved that the story switched from her point of view to Grant’s about half way through the book. I wasn’t expecting that at all, but the events kind of rewound and were retold through his eyes. I thought it was a great writing technique for this story.
And now for my annoyances. I just said that Tori did a lot of stupid things and she was really misguided, and yes that bugged me but that annoyance was actually very fleeting and minimal. A big annoyance came from Grant. And I loved Grant, but he did what I hate a character (or anyone) doing. He decided what he thought was best for someone else and he just unilaterally made that decision. I can’t tell you how much this grates on my nerves. Just sit down and talk to the other person instead of doing what you think they need. It wasn’t Grant’s decision to make, and like always it was wrong and royally messed things up. But like I said, it is a pet peeve of mine so that is probably why I rubbed me the wrong way.
Fake Boobs is the story of Tori and Grant just as much as it is the story of Tori’s personal growth and becoming ok with who she was. It worked well as a standalone and the story felt well developed and complete. So yes, Fake Boobs is about Fake Boobs, but it’s also more than that. I think it is worth a read.
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kindlemom1
Glad that overall the positives outweighed the negatives. These type of reads can be so hard to review because of all the negatives though so I applaud you on doing so well with it. 🙂
Paula M. @ Her Book Thoughts!
I read a book too that I loved but can’t help but notice small annoying things. Anyway, I’m glad that the good things outweighed the negative stuff in this book. I love books that deals with deeper issues. I think I’m gonna give this a try since Tori seems a relatable character. Great review! 😀
Sarah @ One Curvy Blogger
I am such a fan of the brothers-best-friend-to-lovers themes in romance! Not the biggest fan of heroes that make decisions out of “the greater good” without giving the heroine the benifit of doubt, but I’ve read a few books that made it worth my wild 🙂
Edmond
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