3.5 Smooches
Synopsis
Imagine the worst day of your life. Immerse yourself in the details. How did you feel? Who were you with? What were the consequences?
Recalling my darkest day is as simple as typing a few search terms into a web browser. It only took thirty minutes for me to become the center of a media frenzy that caught the attention of an entire country.
So I hid.
Nine months later and I’m getting better. Moved two hours from home, landed my dream job, and met a delicious new guy.
Healing is that simple, right?
Wrong.
Note: New Point is the start of a standalone series with connected characters, but independent story lines.
Review
Zoe Baker has lived a life with tragedy. At the age of 10, her parents died in a car crash leaving her to be raised by her 21 year old brother, Blake. Zoe and Blake are more than brother and sister, they’re best friends. Blake is Zoe’s savior, father-figure, and confidant.
After landing her first job, Zoe suffered a tragedy that shook her to the core. She was left an empty shell of herself. Scared and desperate, Zoe decided she needed healing and to reinvent herself in the town of New Point. This is where she meets Miles. At her parents’ old beach house she will find new beginnings, new friends, a new life – easy healing, right? Maybe not…
Miles is devastatingly handsome. He is everything anyone could want in a man….but he’s been tainted by love before and is scared to let anyone in and trust completely. He knows there’s something different the moment he sees Zoe. It’s the innocence in her eyes that enraptures him. Will he be a strong enough man to let go and let her in?
I honestly have mixed emotions about this book. I enjoyed the characters, emotions, and romance between Zoe and Miles, but I felt that there could have been more. I didn’t feel that the tragedy that Zoe went through was as epic as it’s made out to be. Although everyone handles suffering and tragedy different, and one person’s greatest fear may be nothing to another, I still felt like something was missing. The writing didn’t pull me in and make it where I couldn’t put it down. I wasn’t enraptured by the story line like most.
I would give 3.5 smooches for New Point by Olivia Luck.
Tricia Phelps
