Full Count

by C A Williams

[Suz @ Bookish Revelations]

Full Count is a New Adult steamy romance chalked full of chemistry and intrigue. C.A. Williams manages to capture the essence of realness, as she takes you on a journey dragging your emotions all over the place. It's a promising story, with a lot of wonderful potential in the details. Perhaps, that's where some of the snags and glitches take place. The pacing of the novel and the characters are pretty much what makes this book a good read, not necessarily a great read, but a good one.

Dealing with tough issues and sensitive subject material, Williams does a good job of getting you out of your comfort zone and thinking about the story at hand. Her exploration of human emotions and realism of the characters true nature at their core, is another good element that she implements. It's easy to connect with them and to feel sympathy towards them, but I found there are those "wtf" moments that just sort of make your head swim a bit. Without being too spoilery, it raises a crop of questions that almost feels as they could become double standards and that's the part that didn't sit so well with me.

What I liked most about the characters, other than the fact that they were all mostly likable (except for a few minor irritations here and there), was that Williams wrote all of them in such a way that they fit into the story perfectly (including the minor characters) and made them all important in their own way. While Pagie was irritating in some ways, she was still likable in others. Kitty is the one that I ended up identifying the most with, because she was the complete opposite of who Paige was, and I found her to be much more balanced and enjoyable. Jake and Dylan were also fantastic characters with their own set of flaws and positives. It was hard for me to really fully get behind one or the other for Paige, because I can see where both of them could easily fit into her romantic life in different ways for different reasons. In the end, though, I had a gut feeling who she would end up with and I can be okay with it.

As with any book, there are positives and negatives about it, that make it good, okay, or not so good. Full Count is a pretty good book, that I would recommend for a summer guilty pleasure. The characters are enjoyable, the story is interesting, and Williams writing style is definitely worth checking out. So, I would definitely recommend giving this book a look at.