Indeed, the frequency with which sexist portrayals of women and relationships appear throughout works labelled New Adult suggests that the pair go hand in hand.

So far, the genre has offered none of the maturity or complexities of the liminal period between teen years and full-on adulthood, instead preferring what merely amount to college age erotic romances with a hefty side dish of misogyny. I think I should just give up trying with New Adult literature. He is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that… She knows he is anything but good for her and that he’ll never be faithful to anyone. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no.īlaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She is still naïve and innocent due to spending the last three years taking care of her sick mother.īut for twenty-four year old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. To want what you’re not supposed to have…

Fallen too far by abbi glines