Badass Bloggettes: *** REVIEW *** RIGHT by Jana Aston

My childhood was perfect.

I’ve led a charmed life, and I’m not going to blow it now by picking the wrong guy.

I’ve got my sights set on my brother’s best friend.

He’s known my family for years. He’s reliable and kind and handsome.

Sure, he’s been avoiding me since I was six.

I’m a bit aggressive for him, maybe.

But he’s the one… right?

I really enjoyed Everly’s story, the heroine of Right. One of the reasons it is so enjoyable is because I expected a completely different story—this one is the Right one. Everly is introduced in Wrong, Jana’s debut novel. She is single minded in her desire to prove to Finn Camden that he is her happily ever after. Finn is her brother’s best friend and the object of Everly’s crush and fantasies since six years old. However, Finn never thinks of her as anything but Eric’s younger sister.

Right is told from Everly’s point of view. We are in her head as she tries to work out ways to convince Finn that he wants her. She is one of those friends that does things that makes her friends crazy, and, from the outside seem over the line, but her friends know she “helps” them from the heart. For example, Everly worries about her roommate and sets her up on a date without telling her it is a date. Oh my! She is funny and Jana has me laughing a lot throughout the book.

Sawyer is Finn’s brother and WOW! I fell in love with him from the start. He is perfect for Everly. I love that as he attempts to steer Everly away from Finn he falls for her hook, line, and sinker. The switch from Everly as the stalker to Sawyer stalking her is a fun twist in the plot and the typical big brother’s friend storyline.

“Any man worthy of you would work for it, Everly. Not sit by passively while you did all”

Sawyer is the perfect personality for her character. He is strong, established, successful, and knows how “handle” Everly. He is twelve years older than Everly and the maturity he brings to the relationship is what she needs. I love the fact that he never tries to change her into a “corporate wife” but allows her to be the quirky, crazy woman she is.

The story moves at a quick, steady pace through the story and flows smoothly through the events. It is a little confusing, for me, in the beginning because of the jumping from the past to the present. A couple times I had to scroll back to get my timeline in order but it didn’t slow me down and didn’t ruin anything. I literally couldn’t put the book down.

My only criticism is that the little twist or wrench thrown at the relationship didn’t fit for me. I always try to keep in mind that the author has a plan when telling the story and the characters talk to writer as they evolve so anything can happen. What conflicts in my mind is the character that I meet in the beginning and is developed is not the character that I see in this section.

I went back and reviewed the story and there isn’t even the slightest hint that Sawyer switches from an adult to a jerk ever. He is a CEO of a major company. He knows how to deal with the unexpected and, granted this is not an everyday event, but it is something that would make a mature man sit down with the person he loves and talk things through. His solution just doesn’t feel realistic to me.

Everly becomes the adult and deals with the situation head on. I wonder if the story twist would work cleaner if there are a couple more chapters devoted to the backstory? It is a definite fail for Sawyer as it relates to his love but a positive for Sawyer as a person. (I know this is confusing but I don’t want to spoil anything.)

With each book I can see Jana evolve as a writer. I love her stories, her characters, and her sense of humor. This is a fun book that will give you a lot of laughs, a little angst, and a very satisfying ending. I can’t wait to see what Jana has in store for us next. In the mean time you must read Right and if you haven’t experienced Wrong yet—get that too.

4 STAMPS