Title: A
Thousand Reasons
Author: Mariah
Dietz
Genre: Contemporary
Romance
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Blurb:
My life is like a coin.
There are two sides.
On one side, I am Leela Walsh: daughter, sister, employee at three minimum-wage jobs.
I cook. Do laundry. Contribute to the debt my family is sinking in.
On the second side, I am Leela Walsh: Straight-A student, top graduate of my class, med student.
No one knows of my brother’s sordid past. My sister’s poor decisions. Or that I’m the first in my family to graduate high school.
The balance between these two sides is nearly impossible to maintain. And it only becomes more difficult when I meet Wes McCleary.
He’s never had a job. Never wanted for anything.
And now, he wants me.
There are a thousand reasons we shouldn’t be together, and just one that keeps bringing us together.
Will that one reason be enough?
There are two sides.
On one side, I am Leela Walsh: daughter, sister, employee at three minimum-wage jobs.
I cook. Do laundry. Contribute to the debt my family is sinking in.
On the second side, I am Leela Walsh: Straight-A student, top graduate of my class, med student.
No one knows of my brother’s sordid past. My sister’s poor decisions. Or that I’m the first in my family to graduate high school.
The balance between these two sides is nearly impossible to maintain. And it only becomes more difficult when I meet Wes McCleary.
He’s never had a job. Never wanted for anything.
And now, he wants me.
There are a thousand reasons we shouldn’t be together, and just one that keeps bringing us together.
Will that one reason be enough?
This is my first Mariah Dietz book. Back toward the end of
May I received an email asking if I would be interested in “a new Contemporary
Romance, standalone titled A Thousand Reasons, releasing on June 21st.” I was
down. I’m always hoping to find new-to-me authors. What I don’t like is
entering into a book thinking it’s a complete standalone when there are bushels
of people that have clearly already had stories. I was bummed. I don’t like to
start books mid-interconnected series. I know that was a mouthful but to me
this wasn’t a standalone book, it was part of an interconnected series. I know,
I’m being finicky and a butthead, but I really like to have the entire story
and I feel like I’m missing things and inside jokes. Does that make sense? I
don’t even feel like I can fully blame the author. This is being done all the
time. So authors, listen up, if you have people that cross over into other
books and jump around. They are a part of an interconnected series add that in
at the end of the blurb. Just a quick little line saying that we meet ABC in XYZ.
So while perhaps you feel that the
reader can read the story in full; we are getting glimpses from other people
that have other stories we’re missing. Perhaps these are just my feelings. I
just like to read books together so I get the entire rounded experience.
However, I’ll take partial blame here… I should have researched the author’s
other books before I accepted or declined. This is no affecting my review or
star rating at all as I think this might be more of my personal preference than
anything to do with the actual story.
Wes and Leela are polar opposites. Leela had to quickly grow
up and help out her family. That didn’t stop her from reaching for her dreams
though. She has an impressive drive and ambition. I really could relate to her
situation. I worked through college on my own dime while having a family and
young child and while working full time. Dreams are doable; you just have to
want them. Leela shows us what it’s like to work hard and go after it all. Now,
Wes hasn’t had to struggle all his life like Leela has. He still works hard for
what he wants but he’s lucky that he landed in a financially secure family.
They are different. He doesn’t know what it’s like to fight as hard as Leela
does. However, they feel this pull toward each other.
A Thousand Reasons is a really sweet young adult college
romance. The story is there, the bones of it. Sadly, I didn’t feel like Wes and
Leela were the main characters. I know they were but the secondary characters
stole the show. Maybe that’s why my rant above was so strong with this book… I’m
not sure. I think my main issues were some parts of the story felts so drawn
out while other areas felt hurried. The ending I needed more on. It’s an ok
light read but it had potential.
I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.
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in the pages of books that she both read and created.
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things that include her family, good coffee, books, traveling, and dark
chocolate. She’s also obsessed with Christmas ornaments and all things Disney.
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