He’s drawn to Summer, but has no desire to court any of her drama. We fell in love with him in the Off-Campus series. Summer admits, “ My inner critic is, frankly, a total bitch.” Living in Summer’s brain is exhausting for Summer, her roommates, her family, her professors, the reader, and Fitz. In fact, her inner voice practically becomes another character in this already complicated love story. For Summer Heyward Di-Laurentis, it’s truly about how her brain is wired. Kennedy does right by a diagnosis that is sometimes used as a dirty word or a catch-all for kids with a lot of energy.

Instead, utilizing the he said/she said style of the series, the reader sees her real life, real feelings, and struggles to interact with her world. You can hear her say, as Summer does, “ I will forever strive to be Coco Chanel, and I will forever fail because nobody can be Coco Chanel.” Summer has ADHD and a frenetic energy that pushes the reader forward, forward, forward… It would have been easy to write her character in cliches, more like the GG version I started with. She very quickly became her own person, more like Elle Woods. Kennedy’s Summer is so much more though, and as a GG devotee, that’s saying a lot. Because my brain has to cast the movie of every book I read, Summer was Summer Huntzberger from the Gilmore Girls. At first glance, Summer is a wealthy, wild, entitled child who invites drama and leaves chaos in her wake. It’s her main character Summer Heyward-Di Laurentis’ fault. It falls less then short and it's redeeming qualities are minimal.Phew! * Slaps desk* Done! I really do try to take my time and savor books from authors I love, but Elle Kennedy made that impossible with The Chase, the first book in the Briar U series.

If I was giving advice, I would say read the first three books in the series and don't bother with the fourth. This book kinda ruined the whole Briar U series I had grown to love. It's almost as if the author herself didn't believe a guy like Connor would go for our heroine and thus is written completely differently compared to the way she normally dictates her smoking, hot female leads and not in a good way. Taylor is patronised the entire book about the way she looks and having read this book straight after the other 3 books in the series, they as a couple lack chemistry, heat and plausibility because of it. The story was interesting enough, but the dynamic between Taylor and Connor was truly pathetic. There is really very little I liked about this final book. The Dare follows our leading playboy Connor and outcast sorority sister Taylor, as a Kappa House Dare slowly evolves into something more. Well.I think I spoke way too soon!! Elle threw all the praise I just sent her out the window with The Dare.

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