Just Friends by Monica Murphy Published by Everafter Romance Publication Date: September 13th 2016
Pages: 330
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It s the end of summer. Just before I start senior year with my two best friends in the whole world. Dustin and Emily are everything to me. We ve been inseparable since middle school, and when we re together, nothing can go wrong. But things aren t always what they seem. Em s turned into a drunken mess who parties too much. Dustin and I have hooked up a few times and now he s ready to take our relationship to the next level. Yet I m not sure I want things to change. I m scared if I take it any further with Dustin, our friendship will be ruined forever. Then there s Ryan. The new guy. He s hot. He flirts way too much. And Em has totally set her sights on him. So when my best friend betrays me in the worst possible way, guess who s there to help me pick up the pieces of my broken heart? Ryan. But he s so confusing. Annoying. Sweet. Sexy. I want to trust him, yet he makes it so hard. What I really want is for everything to go back to the way it was before. Before I found out that best friends make the worst kind of enemies."
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JUST FRIENDS was one of those books I couldn’t wait to start reading. Monica Murphy has created some of my favorite angsty New Adult characters and I was anxious to see what she did to the high school set. Unfortunately, this one did live up to the hype I created for it.
Olivia, Emily and Dustin are best friends. Olivia and Dustin “messed around” with each other before Olivia left to spend the summer with her father. Neither of them told Emily about their extracurricular activities. When Olivia returns home she discovers a hard partying Emily has become friends with the popular crowd and Dustin acting weird. And then there’s the new guy, Ryan, Emily’s been hanging with.
I get these are teenagers and they are going to be full of high drama, but this group was over the top. I didn’t like Em, Olivia, Ryan or Dustin. The sleeping with one another and swapping back and forth was a bit too much for me. I though Olivia, Em and Dustin were supposed to be best friend? Even if Olivia never said anything about Dustin before she left, why wouldn’t Dustin have some kind of loyalty to her and not jump into bed with someone she knew? That drove me nuts. Then there was Ryan. I couldn’t figure out what his game was or what kind of redeeming qualities he might have that would make me think that maybe he was right for Olivia.
I wish I could have liked this one more. I think if just one of the main characters was more likable I could have tolerated it more. Unfortunately, at the end of the book (which does have a cliffhanger ending) I couldn’t think anything more than they all deserved what they got.
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About Monica Murphy
New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author Monica Murphy is a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite with her husband and three children. She’s a workaholic who loves her job. When she’s not busy writing, she also loves to read and travel with her family. She writes new adult and contemporary romance and is published with Bantam and Avon. She also writes romance as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.
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