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Nora Kincaid has one goal for her second year of college: be invisible. Last year’s all-party-no-study strategy resulted in three failed classes and two criminal charges, and if she messes up again she’ll lose her scholarship. But there’s one problem with her plan for invisibility, and his name is Crosbie Lucas: infamous party king, general hellraiser…and her new roommate’s best friend.

Crosbie’s reckless reputation and well-known sexcapades aren’t part of Nora’s studious new strategy, but as she’s quickly learning, her new plan is also really boring. When Crosbie’s unexpected gestures of friendship pull her head out of her books long enough to see past his cocky veneer, she’s surprised to find a flawed and funny guy beneath it all. The muscles don’t hurt, either.

But as Nora starts to fall for Crosbie, the weight of one of last year’s bad decisions grows even heavier. Because three failing grades and two misdemeanors are nothing compared to the one big secret she’s hiding…

I’m a sucker for New Adult books, I love them…or I used to anyway.  After reading so many NA books over the last few years, good and bad, they all start to sound alike and I quickly got sick of them.  It’s becoming increasingly hard lately to find a good NA book that isn’t full of clichés, isn’t high on drama, tragic pasts, and ridiculous cliffhangers that are simply added for shock value.  Even one of my favorites, Colleen Hoover, severely let me down with her last few releases.  When I think of the last two New Adult books that I truly loved, The Hook Up and The Deal come to mind.  I have been looking for books similar to that ever since and I finally found it with Undecided.

Like most bloggers that have read this lately, I owe this all to Alyssa from The Eater of Books for pushing this on Nick, who pushed it on me.  I’ll admit that I was hesitant at first for a few reasons: seeing the word ‘secret’ in book summaries always scares me because I start worrying that it involves secret kids or secret pregnancies (which I think everyone knows is a huge pet peeve of mine), another reason was the cover.  It kind of screams ‘love triangle’ but I assure that this is not the case at all!  I’m so happy that I read this and once I started I could not put it down.  I read this in a day, which is super rare for me since it takes me a week (or more) to finish a book now.  Needless to say, I loved this book!

If you’re sick of all the usual clichés in NA books, you have to read this book because it doesn’t feature any of them.  Undecided, and it’s characters and story, were so refreshing to read about.  I couldn’t help but love these characters and find myself absorbed 100% in their story.  Nora and Crosbie were so different from the usual NA characters we get, which only made me love them more.  The chemistry between them was crazy good and had such a good build up.  This right here is my favorite part of books, the build up and the chemistry and the tension, and this one was done so well.  Even though the summary alludes to a secret, it really isn’t bad and the story isn’t full of unnecessary drama.  Sometimes, the best stories can be simply about two people falling in love, without any need of extra gimmicks.

I really hope this isn’t the last we’ve seen of Keyes in terms of New Adult!  I hope she writes a companion to Kellan’s story and please hurry.  In the meantime, I’m gonna have to check out her other adult books since they’re also Alyssa-approved.  If you have been looking for good NA, and even if you aren’t a usual reader of New Adult, I highly recommend this book.  If you liked The Hook Up or The Deal, then you’ll love this too.  If you already read and loved this and you haven’t read The Hook Up or The Deal, then you definitely should.  I think this book restored my faith that the NA genre is save-able, we need more books like this!

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