The Tenth Girl by Carrie Aarons Release Review

I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.

For Cain Kent, the rule is golden. Don’t play a game you can’t win. Losing is not in his vocabulary, and up until now, everything has come easy. Football, school, girls…his charm laced ego may just be bigger than Texas itself. The competition he started freshman year with his friends, to make ten notches each in their bedposts by graduation day, is piratically in the bag. One more to go, and then it’s off to college fame and eventually , the big time. Attachments aren’t something he wants to form, but when the quiet new girl challenges him in front of his classmates, his curiosity is piqued. She would be the perfect final scare, and what fun to break her in the process. To bad Harper Posy has no intention of being just another warm body, especially to the bad boy quarterback. Even if he does quote Forster and Huxley when no one is listening. An aspiring author herself, Cain and his hidden soft side are dangerous to her heart. She’s seen men ruin her mother’s dreams time and again, and she’s determined to flay far away as soon as she has that diploma in her fist. But as the school year’s end looms closer, both realize they didn’t quiet understand the rules to begin with. Is winning a dirty bet worth the gamble when the stakes, or the other’s heart in this case, are so high? Harper is the one girl who isn’t up for playing games. And she just might make Cain lose. Everything.

I think it is so much fun to go back to high school in a book. I don’t mind it at all on occasion and Harper and Cain made it so much fun. As you can imagine, the most popular guy in school is the football quarterback. Shocker I know. But that is what Cain is and he has made this bet with his friends that each of them put ten notches on their bedpost before the end of high school. However he is quick to take an interest in Harper and it does not take him long to figure out that she isn’t who he though and she sees sides of him that no one else does. I loved those moments so much and they are what made me fall in love with Cain. This book too is a roller coaster you will be riding for a while. You’ll be happy, then sad, then want to chock these two to make them see the light. However that is what makes this book so much fun to read. I loved every single second of it and I know that y’all will too.