I finished the New Adult Challenge!

Hey, all!  Happy Monday :)  I have some fun cover reveals planned for this week, but to start off the week, I decided to post about The 2012 New Adult Challenge because...

I finished!  

Yep. I set my goal to read 20 New Adult books by December 2012 and I did it.  And my, was it a blast.  When I started writing The Crimson Hunt last September, I went into it thinking there weren't too many NA books out there.  That's why I wrote it; to write about something I hadn't really seen before.  Through that journey, I started a blog, joined twitter, and participated in the Challenge.   And because of that challenge, I became a Goodreads user and now have access to hundreds of New Adult reads :D

I wanted to present the books I read (all of which I highly recommend) and links to the reviews I did on some of the books throughout the year.  

Enjoy! And I hope you join the challenge yourself.  It's not too late to sign up!  Just click here.

NA Challenge Book Reviews:

Bloodlines by S.C. Stephens

• Genre:  New Adult Paranormal Romance
• Age of Heroine:  25 (26 by the end)
• Age of Hero:  26
• Setting:  The Real World (San Francisco)
• Steamy Factor:  Lots of detailed smexy and sexual references (oh and vamp book = a little blood) 
• Language: Mild Profanity

Conception by Jennifer Hartz

• Genre:  Adult Fantasy
• Age of Heroine:  30
• Age of Hero:  107 (But he actually stopped physically aging at 33, oh, yeah, and he's hot!)
• Setting:  Pittsburg/ The fantasy world of Meric
• Steamy Factor:  High Romantic Tension
• Language:  Clean

Conversion by S.C. Stephens

• Genre:  New Adult Paranormal Romance
• Age of Heroine:  25
• Age of Hero:  25
• Setting:  The Real World (San Francisco)
• Steamy Factor:  Lots of smexy, but mostly closed door (oh and vamp book = a little blood) 
• Language: Mild Profanity

Effortless by S.C. Stephens

• Genre:  New Adult Contemporary Romance
• Age of Heroine: 22 (23 when she has a birthday)
• Age of Heros: 22 (23 when he has a birthday)
• Setting:  College
• Steamy Factor:  Lots of detailed sex and many sexual references
• Language:  Mild Profanity (Though there are a few F bombs here and there)

Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James

• Genre:  Adult Contemporary Erotic Romance
• Age of Heroine:  21 (22 when she has a birthday)
• Age of Hero:  28
• Setting:  The Real World (Seattle)
• Steamy Factor:  Whoa the sex!  (Warning BDSM elements and Graphic Sexual Encounters)
• Language:  Put on your helmets everyone because this book is no holds barred.

I Loved You First by Reena Jacobs

• Genre:  New Adult Contemporary 
• Age of Heroine: College Freshman
• Age of Hero:  College Freshman
• Setting:  College
• Steamy Factor:  Sweet
• Language:  A Fair Amount of Profanity

Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover

• Genre:  New Adult Contemporary Romance
• Age of Heroine:  19
• Age of Hero:  22
• Setting:  College
• Steamy Factor:  Warm with a lot of kissing :D
• Language:  Medium level of Profanity

Slammed by Colleen Hoover

• Genre:  New Adult Contemporary Romance
• Age of Heroine:  18
• Age of Hero:  21
• Setting:  High School
• Steamy Factor:  Warm with a lot of kissing :D
• Language:  Medium level of Profanity

Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens

• Genre:  New Adult Contemporary Romance
• Age of Heroine: 21
• Age of Heros (Yes, there are two!): unknown, but I'm assuming 23 or so
• Setting:  College
• Steamy Factor:  Lots of detailed sex and many sexual references
• Language:  Mild Profanity (Though there are a few F bombs here and there)

Violet Midnight by Lynn Rush

• Genre:  New Adult Paranormal Romance
• Age of Heroine: 21
• Age of Hero: 24 (25 when he has a birthday)
• Setting: College
• Steamy Factor:  Blazing sexual tension and make out scenes
• Language: Medium level of Profanity