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Monday, September 3, 2012

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

10 comments:

Kyra Lennon said...

Great stuff! I've only read a couple of those books, but I may add a few more to my reading list!

Krista McLaughlin said...

Congrats on finishing the challenge! That's very exciting! :)

Juliana Haygert said...

Awesome! Congrats on finishing it!

Diana said...

Congrats on finishing the challenge! I'll have to go out and read some of those books.

Victoria Smith said...

They're all amazing! I highly recommend them all. Great NA reads :)

Victoria Smith said...

Thanks so much!

Victoria Smith said...

Thanks, sista!

Victoria Smith said...

There are so many awesome gems up there! NA really is a great category :)

Carrie Butler said...

Woohoo! Congratulations, Victoria. :D

Victoria Smith said...

Thanks girl!

 

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