Seventeen-year-old Isis Blake hasn’t fallen in love in three years, nine weeks, and five days, and after what happened last time, she intends to keep it that way. Since then she’s lost eighty-five pounds, gotten four streaks of purple in her hair, and moved to the Buttcrack-of-Nowhere Ohio to help her mom escape a bad relationship.
All the girls in her new school want one thing – Jack Hunter, the Ice Prince of East Summit High. Hot as an Armani ad, smart enough to get into Yale, and colder than the Arctic, Jack Hunter’s never gone out with anyone. Sure, people have seen him downtown with beautiful women, but he’s never given high school girls the time of day. Until Isis punches him in the face.
Jack’s met his match. Suddenly everything is a game.
The goal: Make the other beg for mercy.
The game board: East Summit High.
The reward: Something neither of them expected.
**This book contains language, some of which may be unsuitable for younger readers.
**This is the first book in the LOVELY VICIOUS series.
Word Count: 67,040
4 Loved it Stars
Review by Jen Hagen
Isis has just moved into a new town and is ready to begin
a new school. She is invited to a
beginning-of-the-year school party and makes quite an impression when she
punches Jack in the face. This is her initial
introduction to the school population.
Say it. Say one more thing, pretty boy. I dare you to.
“You’re pathetic.”
That’s the first
time I punch Jack Hunter’s face.
Isis is quite the firecracker. She isn’t afraid to speak her mind and to
defend a friend. Everybody should want
Isis in their corner. She is fiercely
loyal. She goes to the extremes to make
certain that her friends are happy, even if it costs her $200 to pay Jack to go
out with her friend.
Jack is ice cold, shows no emotion and is expressionless. He is very good looking and is the object of
desire for many of the female students.
Isis and Jack throw derogatory comments back and forth to each other. It’s a game as to who can out-do the other
one.
“If it’s a war you
want, Isis Blake, it’s a war you’ll get.”
The declared war gives Isis something to think about
rather than what she faces at home. Her
mother is suffering from a traumatic experience, her father has started a new
family, and before Isis moved she was hurt by “Nameless.” You know that saying 6 degrees of
separation? It’s a small, small world
when Jack can provide personal information about “Nameless” and how Isis was
hurt. How could he possibly know that?
Jack is evasive and secretive. He gives away very little about himself
except that he needs money to help a friend, Sophia. Isis would really like to know more about the
story of Sophia and why friendships were altered several years ago when Sophia
and Jack were caught in the middle of a deception gone bad. Isis knows the relationship between Jack and
Sophia runs deep. Jack’s secrets all seem
to revolve around Sophia and an incident that occurred several years ago
changed him into the cold person that he is today.
He’s got no heart –
or at least, no heart for anyone whose name doesn’t start with Soph and ends in
ia.
Jack and Isis’s faux friendship kept me laughing. I loved their antics to one up the other
one. Little by little Isis chips away
at Jack’s frozen façade and we see his thoughts interspersed inside Isis’s
story. These thoughts are not a lengthy
POV, usually only a paragraph or two,
but it’s enough to get inside Jack’s head.
I am afraid of the
things I am beginning to feel. Because I
haven’t felt anything new, for anyone new, for so long.
Initially I found the ramblings of Isis to be distracting
and I found it difficult to immerse myself in the story. Once I was able to distinguish what the
author was trying to portray with the character of Isis and how she constantly
talks, doesn’t think before speaking, and sometimes even thinks out loud, I was able to proceed with the story and was
able to relate to her humor. The story
does end on a cliffhanger and according to Goodreads, the next installment is
just a few weeks away with a release date of January 14, 2014.
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