Title: Wild Cards (Wild Cards #1)
Author: Simone Elkeles
Pages: 342
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Published: October 1st 2013 by Bloomsbury
Source: Library Book
Synopsis:
After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek's counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else's family drama. Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain--people you care about leave without a backward glance. A football scholarship would finally give her the chance to leave. So she pours everything into winning a state championship, until her boyfriend and star quarterback betrays them all by joining their rival team. Ashtyn needs a new game plan, but it requires trusting Derek-someone she barely knows, someone born to break the rules. Is she willing to put her heart on the line to try and win it all?
Wild Cards, another Simone Elkeles formulated book.
Hmmm. Okay. Going to put it out there now, I didn’t really like Ashtyn (and WHAT IS WITH THAT SPELLING?!? i just had no idea how to pronounce her name, it was very confusing) I just didn’t like her. There was something that really put me off about her, I just can’t pinpoint that thing.
So this book is about football right? Why don't we actually get a game or stuff about practice. It always the before and after. That is what drew me in. So why didn't you include anything about it?
The whole her and Derek getting together was really weird. Like you are his step aunty, that is just WRONG. SO DAMN WRONG. JUST NO. NO NO NO.
Derek, how to describe Derek, he seemed really nice. The way the book portrayed him as troubled, I hated that. Because really he was lovely, he did yard work without being asked he was nice to his stepbrother. And yes he had his faults, like always mentioning his balls. (why)
Okay back to the story. Ashtyn, how can you not cook pasta, how did you live off junk food for years? I do NOT believe this. You can't just live off junk food, and still be okay mentally and physically. LIKE FAR OUT.
There was a lot I disliked about this book, the sexism from Ashtyn's father and her boyfriend, well ex-boyfriend. The "i'm one of the boys, and have no fashion sense, but can totally pull together a 'sexy outfit' in five seconds flat" I just didn't like this nor did it really make any sense.
It had such great promise, I was really interested in this story, but my hopes fell away 1/3 through the book.
The book had its highs too, I loved the part where Ashtyn stabbed Derek in the foot, that was brilliant. Their chemistry seemed forced at times (like most of Simone Elkeles previous characters from other novels).
Overall, this is just another Simone Elkeles book, one that is was personally a let down, but one you can't seem to put down either.
Rating: ★★
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