Jake Undone by Penelope Ward
Genres:
Contemporary Romance, New Adult
Publication Date:
Oct 21, 2013
My Rating:
♥♥♥♥♥
Nina Kennedy was alive…but not living…until she met him.
Planes,
trains, heights…you name it, Nina was afraid of it and led a sheltered
life ruled by irrational fears and phobias. When she moves to Brooklyn
for nursing school, that life is turned upside down, as she develops an
intense but unwanted attraction to her gorgeous roommate, who’s pierced,
tattooed and just happens to be the smartest person she’s ever met.
Behind
Jake Green’s rough exterior and devilish smile, lies a heart of gold.
He makes it his mission to change Nina’s outlook on life. When he agrees
to tutor her, they forge a bet and the stakes are high as Jake forces
Nina to face her demons. He just wasn’t expecting to fall hard for her
in the process.
What Nina doesn’t realize, is that Jake has been
living his own private hell. Once he drops a bombshell, will their love
survive it?
Told in two parts from both Nina and Jake’s points of
view, Jake Undone is a standalone story and a companion to the novel,
Gemini.
My Thoughts
Holly batshit! I haven't read GEMINI yet but I've come undone by this book! Jake you are now my new book boyfriend!!
Nina aka Troll. Petite, long dirty blonde with a large blue eyes. She has a few phobias such as; elevators, planes and heights that led her a sheltered life. Nina is moving to NY to attend nursing school. She'll be sharing an apartment with her childhood friend Ryan with two roommates and Jake happens to be one of them...
Reality Show Scene Three, enter stage left: hot womanizing roommate. Then, came the three words that would change my life. “Hi, I’m Jake.”
Jake, the king of sexual innuendos. Tall, green eyes, tattooed arms, pierced, dark hair, mysterious and loves eating bananas! He's your typical delicious bad boy but smart, clever and on the inside.
“Sometimes if you are willing to withstand a little pain in life, Nina, you might discover a pleasure that you never would have otherwise known existed.”
With Math being her worst subject, Jake offered to help Nina tutor her in but there's a catch.. if she gets lower than A, she'll have to face one of her fears. This is where they started to become friends and over the time Nina couldn't help but develop an intense attraction to Jake. Both are opposite but they fit together somehow. The sexual tension between them was so thick you could cut it with a knife. But Jake is hiding something from her, something that is holding him back..
What are my fears?” He looked up at the sky, and his lip twitched as he pondered my question, then looked back at me. “Hurting people…like letting people I care about down. Stuff like that.”
I'll be honest, the cover got me on this one. Never heard of the author nor read any of her books so when I started reading Jake Undone, I kinda knew it's your cliche bad boy meets good girl story so I didn't put up any high expectation on this book. But the moment I read the prologue.. omg. I was a fuckin' goner and in that moment, I fell in love with Jake.
The house is fucking boring without you. Even sniffing your underwear hasn’t put me out of my funk. If I sniff this one five times, will you magically reappear?
Jake is one amazing character but I guess what really made me love him more is that he has a heart of gold. He's loyal and never stop wanting to help other people. Sure, he made a lot of mistakes
(who doesn't?) and unfair decisions that made me want to smack him upside the head. But I also think that all these was necessary to make him feel more... real.
(Sorry, I don't know if that's the right word I'm trying to put here)
But the sweet little things he did; making
bat origami, poems, charmed bracelet and how he's insecure and unsure of himself made this book more special.
Heck, even when he cried was so sexy and manly for me. I can go on and on how amazeballs he is but it would be more fun if you guys will discover it by yourself.
“I’m yours. I have never belonged to anyone before…but I know that I belong to you,”
I guess the only thing that "kinda" bothers me was in the end...
(Please don't read if you haven't read the book yet)
In the end, Jake will still continue to visit his ex wife every weekend. Even though she's an ex they still have some history together, so somehow the situation is quite disturbing. I don't mind if he helps with the financial needs but to visit her every weekend? EVERY.DAMN.WEEKEND? Uhm. No. :/
But if you look it the other way, I guess the ending made this book more believable. It didn't feel like other cliche NA books that everything was solve and they live happily ever after.
“My body belongs to you.”
“My heart belongs to you.”
“My soul belongs to you.”
“Only to you.”I didn't realize my review is already longer but overall this was a great read! I loved it and highly recommend this to anyone! I'm dying to read Skylar and Mitch story!!!! OMGEEEE!
About the Author
Penelope Ward grew up in
Boston with five older brothers. She spent most of her twenties as a
television news anchor, before switching to a more family friendly
career.
Penelope lives for reading books in the new adult genre, coffee and hanging out with her friends and family on weekends.
She
is the proud mother of a beautiful 9-year-old girl with autism (the
inspiration for the character Callie in Gemini) and a 7-year-old boy,
both of whom are the lights of her life.
Penelope, her husband and kids reside in Rhode Island.
Penelope Ward Websites
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