3:AM Kisses

by Addison Moore

• ASIN: B01IYDCD0Y
• Publish Date: 2013
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[nitzan_schwarz]

Wow, it's been a long time since a book pissed me off enough that I dropped it before I even reached the 10% lol. But 3:AM Kisses was asking for FAR too much for me.

First of all, we've got the virginal girl in Baya, but she's not like all the other virginal heroines you've read off--she thinks about sex a lot! Everything south is tingling and heating up ALL the time, and she thinks about dicks and stuff a lot. However, she is STILL a naive imbecile who dreams of her college roommate being her BFF so they can paint each other's nails and talk boys and can't figure out that notches (literal ones on the wall, for crying out loud) mean sexual conquests and not something to do with fucking wrestling. Like, for real? FOR REAL? This was SO dumb to me.

Also, male hero (whatever his name is), was kind of a jerk (he already nailed half the girls, of course), and this book has managed to be SO stereotypical and over the top in literally 20 pages that I just CAN'T.

[Kelly]

I'm a glutton for punishment.

3:AM Kisses is a new adult novel that follows the story of Baya and Bryson. Don't they already sound lovely as a couple? Baya is a naive virgin who is a freshman at the same university as her brother, who incidentally is also Bryson's roommate. He's the campus whore. Both young men mark notches into their door frames of how many female conquests they've bedded. So when the lovely little Maya walks in, of course Bryson wants her. She's the token virgin who is about to change his life. Now I know what you're thinking... Beautiful Disaster. But that isn't the case at all. It's all new adult. It's the one character with a secret that stops the relationship progressing. It's the needy virgin that is ready to jump on the first warm body thinly veiled as a love interest. Why? Whhhhy do I do this to myself. I know I'm not going to enjoy it, it's not sexy or worth of swoon status and I'm not one who enjoys writing negative reviews either.

But yet again, I've been sucked in by a book that promises sexy... And delivers flannelette pyjamas a an evening of knitting.

Let's talk about what new adult books are known for. Sex. Some authors take the slow approach and develop a healthy relationship between characters which progresses naturally. Others have virgins being slammed against walls like rag dolls. So how do we avoid the latter? When it comes to new adult, I've officially read my last book in the genre. That's it for me.

3:AM Kisses is actually more annoying than most, where it felt like even collage aged young adults are declaring their love after only what felt like days. Bryce's dialogue sounded like sonnets blooming in a field of roses when he spoke of his love for Baya. Say what? It doesn't matter how bad he wants in those pants ladies, no man is declaring flowery passages of love, especially when he's a newly reformed man whore. Every chapter ends in the same fashion, he wants her or she wants him and adding that they'll find a way to make it work, will make her mine, will make him mine and the likes. Every. Single. Chapter. What is the deal with that?