Review: When the Stars Align by Jeanette Grey
Note: This ARC was provided by Forever (Grand Central Publishing) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Josephine Kramer is spending ten weeks in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, thanks to her internship that'll have her doing research and working on a project using the world's biggest radio telescope. She has no intention of hobnobbing with the other interns and simply wants to get down and do the work necessary. But then she meets fellow intern Adam McCay and as much as she'd like to believe he didn't get his internship on his own merit and is pathetically pining away for a girl who appears to no longer want to be his girlfriend, Jo quickly realizes that Adam's a genuinely nice guy who loves astronomy as much as she does. Will the stars align long enough for the tatted girl with piercings to lower her defenses and fall for the all-American guy?
When the Stars Align is a new adult (NA) romance standalone and is my first read from author Jeanette Grey. Jo Kramer has never received the acknowledgment that she's wanted from her father for twenty-one years. She knows he's disappointed that she isn't the son he wanted and that her arrival into the world meant the departure of her mother, who died due to complications. The only thing she shares with her father is their field of study and ten weeks in Puerto Rico to focus on her internship in her junior year were meant to be exclusively about work. But Adam McCay is the very distraction she didn't want but appears to need. Theirs is a love story that may appear unlikely at first but later manifests as meant to be.
I enjoyed the story and liked that it was about a girl who is more than the tattoos inked on her skin and the piercings adorning her body and a guy who is more than the clean-cut persona he exudes. Both Jo and Adam are science geeks but there's nothing geeky about them, not that there's anything wrong with being geeky. Their initial interaction is memorable and it's interesting to watch how they play off of each other, especially with Jo being as prickly as she was. When they finally decide to do something about their attraction, the journey truly begins for both of them and while they undergo changes, Adam's are more subtle, though definitely still as life-altering, than those of Jo's, most especially in dealing with her father.
I more than appreciated Jo and Adam not falling into bed with each other soon after meeting and that while they may have noticed each other physically, there certainly wasn't much love lost between them with a not too auspicious beginning. Just when I thought the story would end one way, it changed course and came up with something that both Adam and Jo would have to deal with separately in order to have a chance to be together. Trust and respect is something these two earn and you can see how their relationship evolves during the ten weeks they're together in Puerto Rico and how it continued to evolve when they returned to the United States. When the Stars Align was a great read and it receives 4.5 stars. ♥
Release Date: 01 September 2015
Date Read: 01 September 2015
Learn more about Jeanette Grey here.
Purchase When the Stars Align on Amazon | B&N | Kobo.
Josephine Kramer is spending ten weeks in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, thanks to her internship that'll have her doing research and working on a project using the world's biggest radio telescope. She has no intention of hobnobbing with the other interns and simply wants to get down and do the work necessary. But then she meets fellow intern Adam McCay and as much as she'd like to believe he didn't get his internship on his own merit and is pathetically pining away for a girl who appears to no longer want to be his girlfriend, Jo quickly realizes that Adam's a genuinely nice guy who loves astronomy as much as she does. Will the stars align long enough for the tatted girl with piercings to lower her defenses and fall for the all-American guy?
When the Stars Align is a new adult (NA) romance standalone and is my first read from author Jeanette Grey. Jo Kramer has never received the acknowledgment that she's wanted from her father for twenty-one years. She knows he's disappointed that she isn't the son he wanted and that her arrival into the world meant the departure of her mother, who died due to complications. The only thing she shares with her father is their field of study and ten weeks in Puerto Rico to focus on her internship in her junior year were meant to be exclusively about work. But Adam McCay is the very distraction she didn't want but appears to need. Theirs is a love story that may appear unlikely at first but later manifests as meant to be.
I enjoyed the story and liked that it was about a girl who is more than the tattoos inked on her skin and the piercings adorning her body and a guy who is more than the clean-cut persona he exudes. Both Jo and Adam are science geeks but there's nothing geeky about them, not that there's anything wrong with being geeky. Their initial interaction is memorable and it's interesting to watch how they play off of each other, especially with Jo being as prickly as she was. When they finally decide to do something about their attraction, the journey truly begins for both of them and while they undergo changes, Adam's are more subtle, though definitely still as life-altering, than those of Jo's, most especially in dealing with her father.
I more than appreciated Jo and Adam not falling into bed with each other soon after meeting and that while they may have noticed each other physically, there certainly wasn't much love lost between them with a not too auspicious beginning. Just when I thought the story would end one way, it changed course and came up with something that both Adam and Jo would have to deal with separately in order to have a chance to be together. Trust and respect is something these two earn and you can see how their relationship evolves during the ten weeks they're together in Puerto Rico and how it continued to evolve when they returned to the United States. When the Stars Align was a great read and it receives 4.5 stars. ♥
Release Date: 01 September 2015
Date Read: 01 September 2015
Learn more about Jeanette Grey here.
Purchase When the Stars Align on Amazon | B&N | Kobo.
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