Title: Damaged Goods
Series: All Saints High #4
Author: L.J. Shen
Genre: New Adult Romance
Tropes: Friends to Enemies to Lovers/Football Romance
Release Date: January 23, 2024
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From L.J. Shen, the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Reckless, comes a brand new book in the All Saints series.
Underneath the goody two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her?
Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter. Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak. Not a hair out of place, not an inch out of line, she is everything her troublemaking sister Daria isn’t. But when her A game turns out to be a lukewarm C- at Juilliard, Bailey’s picture-ready life starts fraying faster than the worn satin ribbons of her pointe shoes. She’s becoming a piece of gossip. The Troubled Child. A drug abuser. No longer the girl her best friend once knew.
Lev Cole is so golden, he’s got the Midas Touch. Prized quarterback. Football captain. Hottest guy in SoCal. A textbook cliché. But with a girlfriend he doesn’t love and a career path he doesn’t value, Lev is coasting.
The only two things he cares about, Bailey and becoming a pilot, are out of reach.
But Lev is done being satisfied with the life others have chosen for him. He wants to pick his own cards. To demolish the seamless kingdom of lies his family stitched together on the ruins his mother left behind.
The question is, can he save his best friend and his dream before too much damage is done?
Renee’s Five Star Review
I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
This is the story of Lev and Bailey. The girl had it all to be a girl just in college. She is smart, beautiful, loving and funny and living a dream a Julliard in NY. However all that comes crashing down and she finds herself back in her hometown around her old family and friends. She and Lev have been friends for forever and a day. She was there for him and helped him when his mom died when he was fourteen and he has been in love with her for the longest time. Lev is a football player that could go to the NFL at the drop of a hat and he gets all kinds of pressure to play football for his career and all he want’s to do is be a fighter pilot. First though he is going to have a word of prayer with Bailey while checking on her. Things have changed since she left for college and they haven’t really been talking. Now they are back in each other’s lives and things though they get crazy at times just might lead them to places they never in a million years expected. I loved reading this book and didn’t put it down until I was finished. I ran the emotional roller coaster with these characters and survivied. Even if a time or to I was all OH NO!!!, about it.
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L.J. Shen is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of contemporary, new adult, and young adult romance. Her books have been sold in twenty different countries, and she hopes to visit all of them.
She lives in Florida with her husband, three rowdy sons, and rowdier pets and enjoys good wine, bad reality TV shows, and reading to her heart’s content.
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About Renee Henson
Renee Henson has an obsession with reading and reviewing. Especially anything that is a dark romance, fairy tale retelling, MC, and is trying her best to love the PNR worlds. Nothing is quiet as exciting to her as reading a good book and then talking about it or making comments while reading with her friends that have read the book too. She is always happiest with her kindle in her hand and her nose is a book. She has been reviewing for Stephanie's Book Reports for over ten years.
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