Hi guys! Welcome to today’s tour stop for Julia Kent’s Random Acts of Crazy blog tour. This tour is hosted by Shane from Itching For Books, and will run from July 15-19.
Today, I have my review with me as well as my favorite quote from the book...plus there’s a giveaway at the bottom.
Enjoy!
Title: Random Acts of Crazy
Author: Julia Kent
Published on: May 21, 2012
source: Shane from IFB for blog tour
I never intended to pick up a naked hitchhiker wearing nothing but a guitar. A guitar. Really. I don't collect guys like that (don't ask what kind of guys I do collect), but when you spot a blonde, tanned, sculpted man with a gorgeous smile and his thumb poking up and practically begging you to stop – you stop.
And I definitely never thought I'd be staring into the bright blue eyes of Trevor Connor, the lead singer for Random Acts of Crazy, an indie rock star I followed like the slobbering fileshare fangirl I am. How he came to be nude and lost six hundred miles from home is quite the tale, but how we fell in love is even more unreal.
Because someone like Trevor Connor, headed to Harvard Law next year, isn't supposed to want someone like me, a rural Ohio chick majoring in Boredom at Convenience Store University who is all curves and frizzy blonde hair and manners so unpolished they have sharp edges that make you bleed.
But he did.
When his best friend, Joe Ross, the bass player for Random Acts of Crazy and a man who makes Calvin Klein models look like Shrek, drove eleven hours through the night to rescue him, though, it got real complicated. It's one thing to like two different guys and be torn.
What do you do, though, when maybe – just maybe – you don't have to choose?
As my Aunt Josie says sometimes, "It's always complicated.”
Warning: has mature content
The book surprised me in so many levels. But first let me tell you what interested me with the synopsis: 2 guys in a rock band plus a curvy kind of girl, stuck in a sticky situation. Well, that certainly hooked me in. Halfway on the book, I certainly did not expect that it involved that kind of extent of a mature content, but it’s not something truly alarming like dying kind of alarming,hehe.
I have to say I did enjoy the story, mostly in the beginning. Darla was a funny narrator, with some serious mouth on her. A sailor’s mouth is a perfect description truly! The life she lived was really sympathetic but the hope and contentment she carries with her is remarkable. The two guys, Trevor and Joe were completely different from her, like opposite dimension different. They grew up never having experienced hunger...But somehow each of them learned something from Darla. Trevor first, then Joe next. I really can’t pinpoint how they did, but they did, and in a very realistic way possible. So that was something..and a plus. The story could have had a good potential for a drama, but I don't understand why it veered off and the story suddenly twisted into awkward for me, that was the mature content part.. but other than that certain thing, I liked the main story enough. It was really funny and entertaining and easy to read! You will have fun seeing it all from Darla’s POV. Though the ending was kind of hanging there. It ended quite happy, but it left me confused and wanting more of Darla’s story/adventure.
BUT more of a FAVORITE QUOTE actually. :)
"When a naked soul finds you
You don’t have a choice
You have to stop and pause
You can turn away and never look back
But it will yank you back,
because Random acts of crazy draw you in
Random acts of kindness draw you in
Random acts of love draw you in”
-page 248, Random Acts of Crazy by Julia Kent
(from the ecopy given)
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