Review: Running Wild by Sara Jane Stone (Second Shot #0.5)


Note: This ARC was provided by Avon Impulse in exchange for an honest review.

Sara Jane Stone has an all-new series entitled Second Shot and she starts us off quite nicely with a prequel novella that sets the stage for the first full-length novel to be released in March. Running Wild takes place five years prior to the series proper and has Noah Tager and Josephine Fairmore spending one unforgettable night together. Nothing more could have come from that evening, not with Noah heading off to join the Marines the next morning and Josie getting ready to go off to college on a scholarship, but Noah's had feelings for his best friend's younger sister for quite some time, as does Josie, who never thought it possible that the guy she was crushing on could ever want her back. 

This book did exactly what a prequel novella is supposed to. It gave us a story--albeit an unfinished one because it's clear that Noah and Josie have a heck of a lot more story to tell--and it made us curious about the characters that we can expect to headline their respective books throughout the series. It whets our appetite for Noah and Josie and the continuation of their story in the now with Serving Trouble, which will be out on March 8th, and we get a sneak peek at said novel and what a peek it was, leaving me wondering what happened while these two were apart, specifically, what Noah bore witness to while serving and what caused Josie to be in the state she was in when she returned.

Based on this prequel novella alone, my expectations for the rest of the Second Shot series are already high. Sara Jane Stone's writing is, I feel, even better than what I've seen in another series of hers that I've read. She's given us two main characters who we want to get to know even more because there's already a bit of an investment that's been placed on them, leaving us to hope that the outcome of their love story will be worthwhile. I'm quite excited to begin reading the advanced reading copy of Serving Trouble, which I just received approval to read and review through Edelweiss earlier today. Running Wild is available for free on e-retailers and I recommend you check it out. Five stars. ♥

Release Date: 02 February 2016

Date Read: 01 February 2016

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