Losing It (Losing It, #1)

by Cora Carmack

[Leah]

When I received a copy of Losing It by Cora Carmack, I couldn’t wait to read it. I’m in love with the New Adult genre, made even greater by the fact I’m only able to read one New Adult book a fortnight due to all the Chick Lit novels I have to read. Losing It is very much a novel people are talking about – it’s such a popular novel and as is the case with NA novels, it was originally self published. I’m not a massive fan of the cover – though the guy on the cover is very pretty! I decided it was the perfect book to read before I had to go to work one evening, and I absolutely blasted through the book, it was that good!

Losing It as you might be able to tell from the title is about losing it. The v card. Yes, Bliss Edwards is a virgin and she’s sick of it! She feels like a freak and after confiding in best friend Kelsey, she finds herself all dolled up and at a club, looking for a man for the night. When she meets Garrick, a hot British boy, she’s entranced. He’s gorgeous, and very interested in Bliss and Bliss decides he is the one for her. But once they get back to her apartment she freaks out and leaves him naked in bed. She thinks that she’ll never see him again, and cannot believe it when she walks into class the next day and see her new teacher is none other than Garrick Taylor…

I flipping loved Losing It. I absolutely blimmin adored it and I devoured it in a meagre 2 and a half hours. I just couldn’t stop reading! I loved Bliss so so much, she’s the same age as me and I just related to her absolutely. I thought she was one of the best female characters I’ve read in a while, she was just awesome. And Garrick! Oh Garrick. I want my own Garrick! Sigh. He was just beauty personified inside and out. I loved the tension between the two, loved the banter, the easiness of their interactions and I cringed with Bliss when she walked into class and saw him there! I was dying for them to get it together!

Losing It was just fabulous. Cormack has created such a fabulous plot with such engaging characters, characters you really care about. It was touching, smart, funny – I loved the bit with Bliss’s fake cat, Hamlet, it had me giggling. I just loved this book! This genre has yet to disappoint me, and this is the best of the lot. I’m so thrilled Cormack is continuing this series, with a second novel Faking It on the way hopefully really really soon and then there’ll be a third book to follow. It looks as though they’re companions rather than direct sequels but hopefully we’ll see more of Bliss and Garrick in the upcoming books! This is a book twenty something’s will absolutely adore, it was amazing.