The Avery Shaw Experiment by Kelly Oram

The Avery Shaw Experiment

by Kelly Oram

When Avery Shaw’s heart is shattered by her life-long best friend, she chooses to deal with it the only way she knows how—scientifically.

The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. She’s going to find the cure. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart.

Avery finds the solution to her troubles in the form of Aiden’s older brother Grayson. The gorgeous womanizer is about to be kicked off the school basketball team for failing physics. He’s in need of a good tutor and some serious extra credit. But when Avery recruits the lovable Grayson to be her “objective outside observer,” she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for, because Grayson has a theory of his own: Avery doesn’t need to grieve. She needs to live. And if there’s one thing Grayson Kennedy is good at, it’s living life to the fullest.

Reviewed by Sam@WLABB on

5 of 5 stars

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This is my 4th Kelly Oram book and I have to say, she is great at writing adorable, "aw shucks" stories. All her books (thus far) have left me ooey-gooey, warm & fuzzy and with a perma-smile.

This story follows Avery Shaw as she tries to recover from a broken heart and a broken dream. She always imagined that Aiden would be her "forever", but he betrays their friendship and leaves her emotionally broken. Enter, Aiden's brother, Grayson. He is a popular, handsome, jock, who Avery always regarded as her gross older brother. He agrees to help her with her "experiment" and an impartial outsider. However, he has suddenly noticed what was right in front of him the whole time, and now aspires to be more than Avery's gross older brother.

It was very sweet to watch Grayson's transformation. He crossed social lines, went outside his comfort zone and even put his wants aside, because all he wanted was for Avery to be happy. I found this book so sweet, cute, amusing and swoony. I started it and just had to finish it, and I wore a smile the entire time. Between the hijinks and the witty banter, I had a lot of laughs.

This is a great, fun, light read, which left me shiny and happy.

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