This is a perfect fit for readers who enjoy slow-burn, emotional, and romantic stories that explore themes of love, sex positivity, and self-discovery, particularly those who appreciate complex relationships and character development.

Rikki by Abigail Strom truly was such an incredible and amazing read and I loved it so much. I connected with the characters and loved the story!

I liked the story, I'm always a sucker for enemies to lovers tropes. There was a lot of drama about their relationship, but it was still very sweet. This book is definitely meant for YA readers, although the plot takes place in college.

I didn't finish this book but I did read about 40% of the book. I couldn't connect with the characters or the romance so I gave up. Sorry.

I really enjoyed the book, it has everything I love in a novel from start to finish. I can’t wait to read what the author has planned next!

I received a free e-edition of this book courtesy of the author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a pleasantly light read, which was definitely helped by its short length. At just over 200 pages, this book was barely over the length of a novella. And yet it contained enough storyline development to appease me which was good to see - although some things would have definitelly benefitted from more development, I can't really complain as the majority was developed to a good standard. I also really liked Strom's writing style, it gave the story the kick it needed at points and definitely was a big bonus of the book.

There were concepts in the story that didn't sit quite right with me - for one, a person basically a year older than me admitted to sleeping with over 20 individuals... and NO-ONE was even the slightest bit concerned? This is freshman/ first year of university we are talking about, these people are barely adults - when or how have they found the time to do that?? Unless of course they were partial to one night stands, and even then... why did no one question that?

The heroine bugged me at times, but the hero was quite a pleasant addition to the story and made it all the more bearable.

This book was actually quite innocent as far as New Adult novels go, there was the right balance of angst and romance (which was gloriously slow burning unlike many other books of this genre, it was given plenty of page time to develop which made it all the more realistic and pleasing) which created the basis of a good story.

The story did fall apart at one point, when Sam decided to do something that really didn't seem to fit in his character's description but Strom managed to pull it back together enough for me to want to pick it back up after throwing it into the corner of despair and shame after a certain event happened.

Whilst I hadn't really found many bad things in this book, it was much alike to other books in the NA genre and maybe that was where the majority of my problem lay, I feel like I have burned out reading this particular genre and would benefit from a break from it in order to provide more objective reviews.

Overall, I think that the book set up hope for the rest of the series and I will probably look into reading its successors to see whether the story develops complexity wise as more characters are introduced.

My Rating: 2.5 /5 Stars