Title: Damaged Goods
Series: All Saints High #4
Author: L.J. Shen
Genre: New Adult Romance
Tropes: Friends to Enemies to Lovers/Football Romance
Release Date: January 23, 2024
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From L.J. Shen, the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Reckless, comes a brand new book in the All Saints series.
Underneath the goody two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her?
Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter. Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak. Not a hair out of place, not an inch out of line, she is everything her troublemaking sister Daria isn't. But when her A game turns out to be a lukewarm C- at Juilliard, Bailey's picture-ready life starts fraying faster than the worn satin ribbons of her pointe shoes. She's becoming a piece of gossip. The Troubled Child. A drug abuser. No longer the girl her best friend once knew.
Lev Cole is so golden, he's got the Midas Touch. Prized quarterback. Football captain. Hottest guy in SoCal. A textbook cliché. But with a girlfriend he doesn't love and a career path he doesn't value, Lev is coasting.
The only two things he cares about, Bailey and becoming a pilot, are out of reach.
But Lev is done being satisfied with the life others have chosen for him. He wants to pick his own cards. To demolish the seamless kingdom of lies his family stitched together on the ruins his mother left behind.
The question is, can he save his best friend and his dream before too much damage is done?
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Oh boy. What on earth did I just read?
Having not read any other books in the series I went into it blind. Damaged Goods will put your heart through the ringer. At certain points I had to put the book down as I just felt like…nope…I need some air!
In all honesty this is a devastating, heartbreaking story! I got angry, I laughed and then got really sad and then glad, especially with how it ends. However the struggle was real in my hope that the characters would have a happy ending. I will not spoil it in anyway but if you like reading hard to read stories then this might be for you.
I liked some of the heartwarming moments but I also could sympathise with the characters. A difficult but also rather interesting read.
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L.J. Shen is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of contemporary, new adult, and young adult romance. Her books have been sold in twenty different countries, and she hopes to visit all of them.
She lives in Florida with her husband, three rowdy sons, and rowdier pets and enjoys good wine, bad reality TV shows, and reading to her heart’s content.
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