Review: Undecided by Julianna Keyes

Undecided by Julianna Keyes

Blurb from Goodreads:

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…

My Review:
I am so so glad that Nick talked this one up on GR after she read it (definitely an instance where an early review helps!), because I immediately wanted to read it.  It's rarer and rarer to find good new adult and I've been less than impressed after loving The Deal last year.  That being, said, Undecided ranks right up there as one of my all time favorite NAs and I want everyone to read it.  First, Nora is awesome -- I hate to use the word flawed but she's real and reminded me of being in college.  And Crosbie, I fell for him pretty quickly -- maybe it's his love of Arrested Development and illusions but, despite some less than favorable reviews of his past, he's a good friend and he falls for Nora, hard.  I guess what draws me to this book so much is that it didn't need something horrific about anyone's past to drive the action and conflict -- it is straight forward and, ultimately, simply about a guy and girl in college, each of whom have made some mistakes but just want to be together.  It takes them a minute to figure that out but in the end, the entire book rang so true for me and made me nostalgic for college, which sometimes is all I want when reading contemporary NA.  I loved this and I know I will re-read it often!

I highly recommend this to fans of contemporary NA, this one will cure your NA blues and make you smile, smile, smile. Easily a favorite of this year so far and it joins and surpasses a lot of my other favorite contemporary NA books.  Aside from The Deal and Undecided, I also LOVE and recommend On An Edge of Glass, Flat-Out Love, The Hook-Up, Undeclared, After Math and Him.  Undecided comes out today, April 4, 2016, you can purchase HERE, and I think you'll love it! 

He shoves open the door and nudges me in first, "I don't want to talk about this right now."  And then the tentative kisses from the tree are gone, replaced by hot and wet and dirty.   Soon my coat is on the floor and I'm kicking off second-hand cowboy boots, not caring where they land.  Crosbie scoops me up like I weight nothing and I wrap my legs around his broad waist, hard muscles pressed against the tender insides of my knees.