ARC Review: The Breakup Support Group by Cheyanne Young
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Series: None
Author: Cheyanne Young
Published December 1st 2016 by Swoon Romance
Goodreads Synopsis
After four years of first love bliss, Isla Rush just got dumped.
Any hope she has of winning her ex-boyfriend back is shattered when the town rezones her neighborhood, forcing her to spend senior year at a wealthy high school in the next town over.
With a broken heart consuming her soul, Isla can’t focus on anything, except maybe Emory Underwood—a ridiculously hot guy who dates a new girl almost every day. She can’t help but crush on him, even though it’s wrong.
When memories of her ex make her cry in second period, the school counselor sends Isla to a club that meets during lunch. The Break-Up Support Group is a collection of broken-hearted misfits who are all helping each other heal.
Just when Isla’s heart is finally on the mend, Emory shows up, forced to atone for all the broken hearts he’s caused over the years. While hiding her massive crush, she helps him understand the seriousness of breaking a heart.
In turn, Emory offers to help Isla get back on the dating scene by agreeing to be her fake date for the homecoming dance. Isla gladly accepts the ruse, because if anyone can make her into a desirable girlfriend, Emory can! There's just one small problem.
Isla's little crush on Emory might be exactly full blown. And a homecoming fake date with him could push her over the edge to possibly uttering the "L Word!"
Isla can't afford another heartbreak so soon after the last one. She will have to resist his charms, refuse to look into those dreamy eyes, and above all else, not make the mistake of letting him kiss her.
If only she hadn't let her guard down at the end of the night, under the light of her porch in a toe-curling kiss moment of weakness. And now, after months of Break-Up Support Group therapy, and with a heart fully on the mend, Isla has just handed it over to a guy who knows full well just how to break it.
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the author. This in no way impacted on my view.
This book I first saw on twitter, and was offered the chance of reviewing it by the author. In The Breakup Support Group, there is just that - a breakup support group. Isla has been dumped after 4 years, and now she is forced to go to a different school for her senior year due to a rezoning in her town. She had hoped to be able to get back together with her boyfriend, but now that they aren't at the same school, she thinks it'll be difficult. After breaking down on one of her first days at school, the counsellor sent her to a support group for other teens struggling with break ups, and the guy she's now crushing on, and who seems to be with a new girl every week, turns up too. It ends up that Emory is more that just what he seems, and they are really good together. He wants to help her get over her heartbreak, and uses his persona and bad boy attitude to bring her onto the scene at school. The only issue is that her crush has turned into something more, and she's at risk of having her heart broken all over again.
This book was just really enjoyable. Isla is funny and real, and the Break Up Support Group was dead supportive. At her old school, she did have friends and that, but none that seemed to really care about her, and all dropped her when she started at the new school. The new group of friends though, and Emory in particular, do seem to care about her, and she's embraced by all.
The romantic aspect of this book, that was one of the biggest parts, was really well done. The chemistry between Isla and Emory was off the charts. Their friendship was developed naturally, and I loved that they were proper friends first, before it came to romance. I felt like this made it more realistic, and I believed in their relationship more that I would've done without them being friends. I definitely liked Cheyanne's writing style, and will read more from her again.
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4 Stars
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