Hooked on the Game

Just finished another one. Really enjoyed the premise of this one and it was executed very well. A girl who saw her father get taken by feds at age twelve is now attending an Ivy League college without enough money for the rent. Then a bulldozer crashes into her house and she makes a deal to stay with the preppy boy next door who threw the party the frat boys who bulldozed her house attended. Now she has to get along with her new roommate who she thought was a party boy, but she soon learns that he has just as many layers to him as she does.

I really enjoyed this a lot more than I initially thought going into the book. For the first quarter I thought Raya was falling a bit too fast for Kade but the book really fleshed out their friendship a lot more as the story progressed. It built a foundation between two people who were living together and got to know each other after the fact. I loved how Raya's dad was introduced and his character was just awesome. Raya's love for her father was very forgiving and incredibly heartwarming because I could tell that he reciprocated wholeheartedly. I could predict that the author was waiting to use Raya's dad and his history as a plot twist but I didn't expect how the author used the con element at the very end. It was brilliant!