Review: Hustle by Ashley Claudy
- Duchess D
- Apr 1, 2016
- 2 min read
Title: Hustle
Author: Ashley Claudy
Publication: November 19th 2015
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary
Summary: South Eastern University: Where the football players are royalty and Andrew Fayden is king.
College was supposed to be Brook's chance to escape the rumors and the harassment that plagued her at home, but she hadn't planned on meeting Andrew Fayden.
Now, she's finding it hard to think of anything else or anyone else. She's determined to wipe him from her mind though because he is the definition of unavailable. He's got an on and off again girlfriend always on the sidelines and a flood of girls willing to take over that position.
And his popularity makes it hard to keep a low profile, something she needs to do if she doesn't want to be pulled back into the drama of her past.
Despite all the warnings, she's finding it hard to resist-- and he's making it hard to say no.
Brook wants to start off her freshman year in college as a new woman and she plans to achieve that by taking part in some "wild" activities. She wants to break out of her comfort zone which leads her to a tattoo parlor where she meets the campus king-Andrew. Her adventure starts by catching his eye. This book is filled with their struggle to be with each other due to their own issues or outside forces.
The book had a lot of potential. The story started off really good. I was very impressed and I thought I found another NA favorite. I absolutely LOVED Andrew. Unfortunately, that feeling did not last. At first, I was very invested in Brook and Andrews characters. I loved how Andrew was not your typical NA love-interest. He felt very real to me. Towards the end though, he completely lost his appeal. He became the typical bad-boy-turned-emotional-shmuck. This is incredibly disappointing, because the first half of the book he was charismatic, laid-back, and just down right "cool" for the lack of the better word. In the second half, he changed to the point where he became unrecognizable. He became a cliché.
This book was also unnecessarily long and I felt like some scenes could have been removed. There were too many fights/arguments between the main characters that it eventually got annoying. Also, there is A LOT of drinking in this book. Way more than other NA books.
With that being said, I wasn't bored with this book. I find most NA romance books boring and I don't finish many of them, but I did like this book enough to finish it. I also liked that this book had a single first-person narrative told in Brook's perspective, which is rare in the NA field.
This book did surpass my expectations. I was expecting another NA college romance, but this is more than that. Bring two characters that are completely opposites, add some well-developed secondary characters and subplots to keep the story interesting, and provide a few action/suspense scenes, and this is the result.
Standalone: Yes
HEA: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Love-triangle: No
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