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I found myself connecting more with Quinn than I did with Lyla in the first book, Although her problems are very richwhitegirl problems, in her heart she knows she's entitled and it makes it that much harder for her to admit them without coming off as such.
I'm glad that she was aware of her privileges and found them unfair, and actually stood up to her mom about paying her admission into Stanford when she was rejected.
I admit I thought Abram was a bit strange in his appearance in the first book, but now we find out why he reacted the way he did and that he's actually the best person ever I loved Bennett, but I think I loved Abram more.
He was so sweet, so kind to her, and so observant, Even though they hooked up first and THEN started really liking each other, I don't think they would've hooked up unless they both knew that there was something there in the first place, considering the type of people they both are.
So in this case, I was okay with the sex first, and then the feelings,
I also can't believe, but at the same time am completely thrilled, that when he didn't get to see her before she left for home he flew himself out to Connecticut to see her.
I mean, that shit NEVER happens, but I guess that's why these stories are fiction, right Anyway, it was amazing and I loved it and every encounter between them just made my best ache and the ending for them was the best.
.Just like sitelinkHeat of the Moment before it, this was another light and easy read, It was a little harder for me to get into Quinn's story for some reason, but I think that was more me than the book.
Especially because when the romance started, I was hooked, and devoured the rest of the book with no stopping,
I didn't like Quinn as much as I liked Lyla, but she was still a real and believable character, And I loved Abram, he was just the kind of boy I wanted to read about in a fluffy summer read,
One thing I'm really enjoying about these books are how they're taking place at the same time, so it's neat to read about overlapping events from a different point of view.
But, even though I read the first book, like, a week and a half ago, I can't really remember much about it, aside from the events that also happened in this book.
So again, they're cute and mindless books but ultimately a little bit forgettable,.stars!
I know this is the second book of the series and I haven't read the first one but you can perfectly read them in whatever order you like as they focus on a different character each.
I really enjoyed reading this book on the beach, it was such a lighthearted and entertaining read, I wasn'tin love with the writing style and think I'm slowly outgrowing YAfiction though, so I couldn't give it more than.
stars!! If you fancy something fun, quick and easy for summer this would be the right choice for you : It was good.
. but I kind of felt I already knew a lot of the things since I read Lylas already and they had somewhat the same.
. It was a good book worth the read especially in the summer I wasn't that surprised with it honestly though, I did think it was really cool though how she did a book for each of their povs, I'm actually still going to read therd one which is Avens pov which I'm actually most excited about! I did like this book though and I think it'd of been even better if I had read it in the summer at a beach aha.
It just annoyed me a little considering the fact that I already knew some things that happened cause of Lyla's pov, And I do have a feeling that since Lyla and Quinn both put '"I want to be happy " on their promises I feel as though Aven will write that too.
And I'm pretty excited to see what goes on during her time at Florida, Rate:./stars
One Moment In Time by Lauren Barnholdt is the second book in the Moment of Truth series.
While bookfocused on Lyla McAfee, bookfocused on Quinn Reynolds and her lifechanging journey to do something crazy her senior year.
I went into this book with caution and weariness, as I did not enjoy the first book in the series, Heat of the Moment.
Lauren Barnholdt novels are usually addictive, guilty pleasure reads to me with characters stuck in hilarious, comical, sticky situations, All of her novels tend to have the same elements in each of them: a main character that freaks the hell out over a situation whether big or small, she will freak out.
Its not a Lauren Barnholdt novel if the main character isnt freaking out over something,
I wasnt sure what Quinn Reynolds would be freaking out over, due to the impression weve received of her in the last novel.
Granted, Lyla McAfee has a biased opinion and view on both Quinn and Aven who will be the main protagonist of book.
I was more worried that this novel would not be my cup of tea, like sitelink Heat of the Moment.
While bookdidnt work for me mostly because Lyla was just focused on sex, sex, sex, slutshaming from a bunch of characters, and the blurred line between cheating, bookdidnt manage to infuriate me right off the bat.
I think the reason why I love Lauren Barnholdt novels so much is her ability to write swoonworthy love interests.
To this day, I still think some of them are still the best book boyfriends to date, I think Heat of the Moment was a fail when it came to a swoonworthy love interest because he was pretentious, an asshole, disrespectful, and slutshammed the heroine of the story, I think Barnholdt nailed it with Abram.
”Whats your name”
“Dont talk to him!” Neal instructs, “Hes probably a murderer or a kidnapper, Like that guy who took Natalee Holloway, ”
“Lulubell,” I say, because who gives their real name out to a random stranger “Whats yours”
“Don, Don Donson. ”
“Don Donson” I repeat, “Your names Don Donson”
“Sounds like a fake name!” Neal yells, “Stay away from him, Quinn, ”
“Yeah,” he says, and shrugs, “Whats wrong with that name”
“It sounds made up, ”
“So does yours,” he counters,
“Thats because mine is made up, ”
“So is mine. ”
“You gave me a fake name”
“So You did, too, ”
I still think this is one of the funniest lines in first conversations between two book loveinterests ever.
I think the reason why I didnt like Lyla and Beckett Cross from bookwas because he came off as sleazy/douchebag knowing that she had a boyfriend and still hit on her and what not, therefore disrespecting the fact that she was in a relationship with someone else for two years, too!.
I think another reason why this book didnt piss/tick me off right at the start is the fact that Quinn didnt work herself into a corner lying her ass off left and right because thats what Lyla did in book, and also because Lauren Barnholdt main characters tend to have a pathological lying issue.
Weve gotten a glimpse of the problem that tore Avens, Quinns, and Lylas friendship apart in bookwhere Lyla was betrayed by her two friends for spreading her secret to the point where it backfired and hurt Lyla.
I was prepared to see Quinn try to deflect the blame and shift it on someone else, but she accepted that it was her fault that got them into this mess.
While I didnt like that Quinns behavior toward Lyla didnt make sense at times, It made sense that Quinn wanted to explain herself to Lyla of what went wrong back then, but then she decided to act cold instead.
Which made no sense at all, And then she blamed it on Lyla for making it hard for her to explain while it IS both their fault, Quinn should have understood that her betrayal REALLY did hurt Lyla.
I understood why shed quickly blame Lyla as the reason why its so hard for her to explain what she did wrong, but I also didnt like how she quickly chickened out at the idea that Lyla would instantly turn into an ice queen and bite her head off.
Its just me, but at this point in their lifeshe should have realized that there was nothing to fear or nothing to lose since they havent been friends for a long time.
I went into this book, prepared to not like Quinn just as much as I couldnt tolerate Lyla Also, because Quinn was portrayed as RUDE and UNGRATEFUL toward Lyla and Beckett during the trip in book, but she wasnt that bad.
When I finished book, I wasnt looking forward to Quinns book but Avens, I was looking forward to Aven the most especially since her promise involves telling her best guy friend that shes in love with him.
I just love friends to lovers book, and I hope thats what bookis!, So I was surprised when I found myself sympathizing and liking Quinns character,
Now that Ive seen/understood why shes so “rude” in book, you learn that she was just dealing from a bunch of crap that happened to her so quickly.
She was just a character who has a series of shit handed to her, one after another, First she doesnt get into her dream school, then she doesnt get the internship she wanted, and then the guy her friends kept telling her to hook up with is spotted making out with someone out.
All in the span of one day,
However, just because she wasnt that bad didnt mean she was great either, I found myself sympathizing for her for having so much crap handed to her in a short amount of time, AND for her reminiscing over the nostalgia between Lyla, Aven, and her and wanting to go back to the time when they were friends, appreciating that she wasnt a pathological liar as Lyla was, or getting pissed at her for not being able to have the decency to sympathize or understand why Lyla would hold a grudge toward her.
Newsflash: girls are known for their fierce, passionate emotions, Im not surprised that Lyla would passionately hold a grudge for so long, Especially since what Quinn did was kind of really shitty, She lacked empathy and she kept on making herself the victim, when it was HER who should have never went around blabbing her best friends secrets.
I also didnt like how she could be serious one second and immature the next, For example:
“No wonder Im not friends with the two of them anymore, Theyre a couple of thieves, ”
No girl. Theyre not friends with you anymore because you had to open your big damn mouth and blabbed your “best friend”s secret around without even thinking about the consequences.
Seriously. When you find out the reason why she even blabbed her secret, youll find yourself slightly pissed off becauseit wasnt your secret to tell.
you shouldnt have said anything until you talked to Lyla first,you literally outed her secret because you were selfish
When she kept acting like that, she pissed me off.
Which is why I found myself not liking her at times, Also, I find it hard to believe that the smartest girl in school would be dumb enough to run off with a stranger all in less thanhours she met him.
Yes, your email said to do something crazy, Not something stupid, Do you not realize how many Dateline specials focuses on unsolved murder/kidnap tourists case
Like book, I didnt like the minor characters of book.
Since I understood Lylas pain due to book, I hated seeing Quinn being so catty/childish toward her especially since you learned that it was Quinns doing that ended up screwing all three girls over.
I didnt like Celia.
I didnt like how bossy/controlling/stereotypicalmean girl she was, Which is why I hated how Quinn automatically pegged Lyla as one, when it was obvious she should have sorted her socalled friend Celia in there.
Lyla had reasons to be upset/rude toward Quinn, Celia does not.
Paige was a bland character, the stereotypical “dumb pushover that the mean girl Celia takes advantage of”,
I did like Abram, He was a lot more likable than Beckett, He was funny and easygoing, As much as I hate instalove/instalust and romance happening quickly in a short amount of time this is a three day trip, I let it slide since I wanted more Abram scenes.
I think Abram was perfect for Quinn, While she freaked out and panicked over her planned out future going haywire, he was there to
help her come to terms that she didnt have to map out her future.
That it was okay to go with the flow and everything will sort itself out,
This is actually my real life motto, one that I preach to my friends all the time, Im one of those people who make friends with those who panic and freak out over their impending future and adulthood, so to see a character relaxed and calmed over this is quite REFRESHING in a coming of age story.
Reading the “prominent Lyla/Quinn/Aven or a mix of two of the three girls scenes” made me realize how hilarious/random their scenes are from different perspectives.
It also made me either dislike Quinn for automatically assuming the worse from Lyla or sympathize for her because she still wanted to be friends with Lyla and Aven again.
Also, every time theres a moment between a character and Aven, all I want to do is hug Aven because shes such a sweetheart! I seriously cant wait for her book! Especially since each book goes back to the specific hotel scene where all three girls have simultaneously hit the rut in their selfdiscovery journey.
While we find out about Lylas in book, was hinted about it for Quinn in bookand revealed in book, Avens remained a mystery.
So Im dying to see how this trilogy wraps up,
And bookhas the same cliffhanger as book, Argh. You can read the books out of order, I think bookhas the unsatisfying cliffhanger between the two books, because nothing truly got resolved, There were loose ends that got tied in bookwhen it came to Lylas personal problems, but Quinns is left hanging, Both Lylas and Quinns books end the same way which I wont spoil, I think you can read either book first or even just skip book, but Aven has to be read last since hers will wrap everything up.
Overall, I enjoyed this book a lot more than book, While it's not Barnholdt's best work to date, I would recommend it to any diehard Barnholdt fans like moi, .