Rowena’s review of Seeking Her (Losing It #3.5) by Cora Carmack.
Jackson Hunt gets his turn in this Finding It prequel novella …
Jackson Hunt hasn’t been out of the military for long, but he needs to get a job and find a sense of normalcy if he is going to keep his demons at bay. The job that falls into his lap, though, is anything but normal.
Becoming bodyguard (and babysitter) to spoiled rich girl Kelsey Summers isn’t exactly what he had in mind, but it’s a chance to travel, to get away. The catch: Kelsey’s father doesn’t want her to know she’s being followed.
She’s vibrant and infuriating, exciting and reckless, mysterious and familiar. When Jackson sees her falling into the same patterns he suffered years ago, he decides it’s time to stop watching and help her instead. But getting to know Kelsey is more difficult than he thought, especially because the more he knows her, the more he wants her.
*There may be spoilers from FINDING IT in this review so please read at your own risk.*
I love the New Adult genre. I love that the protagonist and love interest are at the points in their lives when they’re first out on their own and can truly immerse themselves in finding out who they really are and what they were meant to be. I love the idea that the characters are past the drama of high school and they’re living their lives for themselves, and not always for their parents.
What I don’t like about the NA genre is that most of the books that I’m reading are only from the heroine’s perspective. The heroes don’t get any page time (well, the kind of page time that we want) but months after their book comes out, we get a novella from the hero’s perspective. A bone to the die hard fans, I’m sure but I’m always left feeling disappointed after reading these novellas and this one is no exception.
If you read Finding It then you don’t need to read this one. Why? Because this book is a replay of certain scenes from that book, coming from Hunt’s POV. It’s nothing fresh or new, it’s just more of the same of things we already knew. Hunt was hired by Kelsey’s father to kind of watch out for her and keep him informed of what Kelsey is getting up to on her trip abroad. So Hunt does what he’s hired to do. He follows Kelsey around. He develops opinions of Kelsey and an interest in her that he can’t shake, no matter how much he wants to.
The thing about this story is it’s not really a story. It’s just part of a story. There’s a beginning but there’s no end. The story just stops..and those kinds of endings drive me up the freaking wall. This novella was supposed to give us insight into Jackson Hunts life but I didn’t feel like I knew him any better by reading this story than I did when I read Finding It. And that’s disappointing because I went into this book, wanting to like it and it just didn’t work for me.
Grade: 1.5 out of 5
This book is available from William Morrow Impulse. You can purchase this book here or here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.