Another YA tackling addictions/diseases laced with philosophical dialogue from whiny teenagers who all sound the same.

Ok. This book just did not do it for me. I'll start with the positive: it was an interesting and hopeful look at addiction. Sadly, that's the only positive I found. The themes in this book have been done SO. MANY. TIMES. Jesse Andrews, Adi Alsaid, John Green and many others have done these plot lines (and they've done them better)

As an observation (I believe this was an uncorrected proof) Christmas magically occurs twice in the final chapters of the book. This really took me out of the story for some reason, but I'm sure I'm turning something normal into something epic. (Said in Dez voice)

To be clear, I enjoyed this book.
It was appallingly frank and upfront.
This book covered a very controversial topic. This boy is addicted to pornography and joins a support group. He meets a girl. She happens to be a member. Of the pornography anonymous group.
I was educated about something I had no idea existed. And that school children were at risk. I am a mother and while I am not naive in what exists online, I also monitor what is watched. This brings us to our next matter. The parents are terrible humans. I was way too emotionally invested in this story.
Thanks again netgalley for the chance to read something other wise I would not have.
I will be reading more Dave Connis

Good narration by the main character. Good approache of the issue of addiction.

WOW!!! Just WOW!! I only rate my favorite books a five. I save that for books that stop me in my track and impact me emotionally. Those that I know will stay with me long after I have finished reading them. The Temptation of Adam is one of those books. I absolutely loved this book! I am trying to write this review to help readers know what makes this book so good, but using terms like character development and such just does not work. This book holds so much emotion. Yes, they are all characters in the books, but each one could easily be someone we know... or could be us. The story is about teenagers struggling with addiction and learning "what they are." It is about learning to live in the middle and not just focus on the epic beginnings and ends. That might not make sense to you, but after reading this book, it is something I will never forget. There are many references to Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah, which is a song I have always loved. It will defiantly have more meaning to me now. Not often do I get emotionally involved with the characters in a book, but more than once I cried when they cried and laughed when they laughed. Way to go Mr. Connis! This book is amazing!!!

I'm undecided about this novel. I read a lot of YA, and although it's come a long way, I sometimes feel it doesn't quite match the emotional depth of adult novels. This book definitely had more of that emotional connection I've been craving from my YA, yet the second half of the novel felt very disconnected from the first half.

Adam Hawthorne is fine. Except that he has a porn addiction he's unwilling to admit too. When circumstances outside his control force him to acknowledge his problems, Adam has to face the consequences and slowly his world starts to unravel.

The beginning of this book was wonderful. It's so refreshing to see YA novels face addiction in such a raw format. Adam is flawed, and his family are just as bad. An indifferent mother (who abandons him) and a father who doesn't listen, lead Adam to shut out his problems and turn to porn to help him escape. I liked this view on addiction - unlike drugs, porn addiction seems so much more real and something that could easily happen to teens and adults in our current climate of online presence. It has handled sensitively and I never at any point felt like the author was being flippant about the issues he was writing about.

I liked Adam's relationships with the other AA group members, especially his fledgling love interest Dez - which was complex and messy and imperfect, I just wish they hadn't decided to take a road trip. I think this is where it started to go down hill a little bit for me. It felt a little bit contrived, as though they needed this big event in order to achieve fulfilment. I felt it lost its way a little bit from here onwards, and never really recovered.

However, having said that, I really enjoyed reading this. It was a new concept to the typical YA novel to me, and I loved the gritty messy relationships. I like my characters to be inperfect, and that's Adam.

I thought this was great! It took a bit to get into and connect with the characters but once I did, I didn't want to put it down. I would recommend to anyone who wants realistic but heartfelt YA.

As a condition of school suspension, Adam must attend porn addiction group treatment under the supervision of his nemesis Mr. Cratcher. Adam confronts the family problems that cause him to use porn as a distraction while learning to lean on his new friends, family and even the not-so-awful Mr Cratchet.

The first third of THE TEMPTATION OF ADAM reeled me in with Dave Connis's witty, engaging voice in Adam's narration. I loved how Adam's father rallied to confront his own issues that prevented him from being present for Adam and Adam's improving relationship with Mr. Cratcher. Connis allowed the potential love interest to burn slowly while addressing the possibility of a potential relationship becoming another addiction. No insta-love and no love cures mental illness.

The plot lost traction for me when the group decides to take s road trip, rather than stay with their ailing leader who might not survive until they return. While the trip was to obtain something, abandoning the sick man who has no family seemed like an unlikely, unkind but convenient plot device. THE TEMPTATION OF ADAM lost focus, and lost me at this point and never really got me back into the story.