Review: Love, Lex & Yours Truly, Taddy by Avery Aster

Love, Lex & Yours Truly, Taddy 

by Avery Aster 

Love, Lex
Category: New Adult
Genre: Romance
Page Count: 218
Source: e-book for review

Goodreads Synopsis: This summer, I’d planned to celebrate my eighteenth birthday in Europe with my fellow Manhattanites—Taddy Brill, Blake Morgan, and Vive Farnworth—until I caught my boyfriend screwing my mother. According to the police report, this vomit-inducing incident happened around the same time I’d supposedly blown-up my mother’s penthouse. Like I’m walking around Soho with a stick of dynamite in my Louis Vuitton purse—not! Now, my besties and I are in jail.

Officer Ford Gotti, the Harley-wheelin’ biker cop who arrested us, keeps sticking his perfectly-sculpted nose into my case. His inked body is jacked like a superhero, and he says I can trust him. He wants me to fess up. I won’t. Not again. Why should I? My friends and I had a previous stint in juvie that nearly destroyed us. I gotta protect them and keep my mouth shut. Right? —Lex Easton, women’s studies major, motorcycle enthusiast, and virgin.

The Undergrad Years is a New Adult contemporary miniseries about first loves, independence, and everlasting friendships.

Reader warning: Contains mature content intended for readers 17 and up.

Yours Truly, Taddy
Category: New Adult
Genre: Romance
Page Count: 192
Source: e-book for review 

Goodreads Synopsis: Jetting to Martinique for a modeling assignment with three of Europe’s hottest magazine photographers—Gustave, Fabian, and Leon—should’ve been easy, breezy beautiful. Never did I expect to look up and see a hole in the ceiling of our plane that was bigger in size than my Birkin bag.

Shit! We’re nose-diving toward Eden Island. I pictured how my New York Times obituary might read when I’m gone, “Taddy Brill, Manhattanite, dethroned descendant of the Austrian House of Brillford royalty, dies at age eighteen, penniless, unloved, and a virgin.” I swear this crap only happens to me. Suddenly, Leon pulls me with Fabian and Gustave. Adrenaline racing through me, our bodies clung as one. We prepared to…crash.

The Undergrad Years is a New Adult contemporary miniseries about first loves, independence, and everlasting friendships.

Reader warning: Contains mature content intended for readers 17 and up.

Review: As these two are part of the same series and I read one right after the other, I decided to include them in the same review post. Along with that, frankly I put them both together in the same post because I do not have a lot to say about them, and I do hate being negative about books. I will say that these books were not BAD; however, they just weren't my style or what I typically look for when reading a book that I really love. 

Like I have said before, the New Adult category is pretty new to me. I have read some books in the genre that I have really loved, and I have read some that I did not like at all. Honestly, some of them contain some stuff that I would really just prefer not to read about, and that was the case with these books, unfortunately. Some people do not mind it at all, and for those readers I think that you will really enjoy these short books/novellas very much. 

I must say that the one major positive for me was the sense of humor that I found within the books. Clearly Aster does know how to write in a way to amuse her readers, and this did cause me to like the characters a bit more than I would have otherwise. Along with that, I really do love the cover of Love, Lex and I very much enjoy the titles of both of the books. I think that they both had great synopsis, and the plots were pretty good for the most part, but some things I could not overlook. 

Through Love Lex, I feel like the majority of the book was about her wanting to lose her virginity. That's all well and fine based on her age and what not, but she is so desperate for it that it became incredibly annoying. I am used to reading young adult books where sex is not the main theme or focus, and I am perfectly okay with that. I was already a bit put off by the first book that it was difficult for me to like Yours Truly, Taddy anymore as well. While I really did want to enjoy these books, it's just not something that happened for me. If you are a new adult fan and are enjoy the more mature content, I think many readers will enjoy these books more than I did. 

Rating: 2.0 / 5.0