Name: celene's review of Undecided by Julianna Keyes
Item: Undecided
Rating: 4
Author: celene

Julianna Keyes

Nora Kincaid has one goal for her second year of college: be invisible. Last year’s all-party-no-study strategy resulted in three failed classes and two criminal charges, and if she messes up again she’ll lose her scholarship. But there’s one problem with her plan for invisibility, and his name is Crosbie Lucas: infamous party king, general hellraiser…and her new roommate’s best friend. Crosbie’s reckless reputation and well-known sexcapades aren’t part of Nora’s studious new strategy, but as she’s quickly learning, her new plan is also really boring. When Crosbie’s unexpected gestures of friendship pull her head out of her books long enough to see past his cocky veneer, she’s surprised to find a flawed and funny guy beneath it all. The muscles don’t hurt, either. But as Nora starts to fall for Crosbie, the weight of one of last year’s bad decisions grows even heavier. Because three failing grades and two misdemeanors are nothing compared to the one big secret she’s hiding…

Undecided

Kaele Perkins 

celene

3.7 woOoOooOo my ship sailed and is still sailing ⛵️ 🛳 ✈️✈️✈️✈️

Lover of Romance 

This review was originally posted on Addicted To Romance
  
I have heard so many great things about this book, but I hadn't really thought about picking it up soon until.....I heard from my dear blog friend Alyssa @ Eater of Books Book Blog, that it was on sale for 1.99 and so I grabbed it up and read it in one sitting....yeah I had a fun time with this book and it has been a while since I have picked up a NA and I am so glad that I did. I love a good romance with not too much drama and Julianna Keyes did a tremendous job with this book and building the romance. It sets off with Nora having to find a different place to live. She has spent the past year partying, and skipping classes and after almost losing her scholarship she knows she needs to listen up and be a good college girl and behave. So she moves in with a fellow student who needs a calmer atmosphere because he is in the same sitation. Soon she and Kellan become good friends. But it is his best friend Crosbie, that appeals to her. Both Crosbie and Nora start to fall for each other pretty quickly. And boy did i love the way these two come together. Its not all instant but not too drawn out either. It felt so realistic and just how you would see a college romance blossom in real life. And no love triangle. I know some may think it sounds like one but totally not at all. And Keyes handles the whole friendship with roomie and sexy romance with friend of roomie so very well. I loved the way these three get along with each other. The romance between Crosbie and Nora is sweet and charming. These two together gives the reader such an addictive feeling. A funny and sexy romance to give you laughs and giggles and keep you looking for more!! CAPTIVATING!

  “How could I not see you? With all these huge muscles…” I sling a leg across his thighs and slide a hand under his jacket, over his stomach. “And this six pack…”
  

  “It’s an eight-pack,” he mutters, eyes sliding shut.
  

  “And this adorable messy hair...”
  

  “Don’t ruin it with the wrong adjectives.”
  

  “Fine, no more compliments. Just facts. I love you, Crosbie Lucas.”
  

  “I love you too,” he replies.

 
  
    
  
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This review was originally published on Latte Nights Reviews.

Man, I loved this book!! 4.5 stars that are almost 5 stars for this amazing book. 

Normally, I wouldn't look twice a book with this cover and title. It seems as if it were a love triangle, right? Well, I'm here to tell you it isn't! I dived into the story and read it in 13 hours!! It would have been less but I had to do human things like eat and chores and whatnot. Every free time I had, I would spend it reading Undecided.

I was not expecting this story to be funny at all but once I started reading, I was already smiling and I was at only 1%! That's how good the start of the book was. It started so promising that I was enamored! 

Nora wants to stop her partying ways and focus on school so she doesn't lose her scholarship. She ends up being roommates and friends with Kellan, who is amazing! Kellan turns out to be Crosbie's best friend and this guy right here has a reputation. 

Nora and Crosbie's relationship was so much fun to read! Crosbie is actually a very nice guy! He always treated Nora with respect and everyone around him. The witty-banter filled with sarcasm had me laughing so hard. I would definitely re-read this book just for this because it was fun!

There was barely any drama, the characters were real and funny, the story was on point! Plus, I was able to relate to Nora, seeing as she's "undecided" on what to study in college. Nora was so real, flawed, and easy to relate to in many ways. Oh and Nora is a fan of Arrested Development, which I'm starting to watch so I was so glad when this show was mentioned in the book a couple of times.

Overall, an amazing, hilarious and real New Adult story that deserves all the attention!

Bethany Lacey

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Oh my God, I absolutely love this book! It was an amazing read! I devoured it in less than a day, that's how good it is. There wasn't one part of this book I did not like.

Nora Bora. I loved this chick. She was trying to redeem from her college mistakes she committed during first year, so she gave up friends, partying, boys. She literally stripped back all of herself, or the first-year college her, until she was back to being Nora Bora of high school. This girl was amazing. Her strength, drive; she was just really amazing! I adored her. I liked the fact that she held herself responsible for last year's mistakes and was owning up to them. I especially liked her will to do better. Hence the need for a studious room-mate, with no distractions.

Imagine her surprise when she opens the door to come face to face with her new room-mate's bestfriend: Crosbie Lucas. And then Kellan opens the door, and it's like last year's mistakes just smack her in the face at full force.

Crosbie Lucas. Sigh. I loved this guy so much! You can put my name on his bathroom wall list, I don't care. I am a Crosbabe! This guy was just so swoon-worthy, dreamy, charming. I literally fell hard in love for this guy. He's up there with Garrett Graham, that's how much I loved this guy.

I loved all the secondary characters in this book as well. I want books for them all. Kellan. Marcella. Nate. I loved all of them and wish them to get their happy-ever-afters too. 

This book is just simply amazing, and you guys need to read it!

Becky

** spoiler alert **
           What a brilliant book this was. I put off reading for so long despite reading plenty of good reviews and I honestly don't know why.

This is categorised as New Adult and I think it put me off a touch. I don't mind NA but I feel like I've grown out of those books a bit. I don't reach for them as much and this book was forgotten about because of it.

I got there in the end and enjoyed it all the more.

I loved Nora, she was fun and smart and regretting having too much fun her first year of college as she lost part of her scholarship and ended up doing summer classes and doing community service. She made mistakes and was trying to move past them. And to do it? She ends up moving in with a guy she had a drunken one night stand with... but he doesn't remember and she's not bringing it up. Sounds like a terrible idea right? It was but it worked.

This book was filled with interesting characters and lots of laughs. There was some miscommunication as Nora kept something from Crosbie but I got it. It wasn't annoying and it was frustrating but there are some things which there is never a good time to bring up.

Then there's Crosbie. He's the romantic interest and he was a total babe. He was muscly with a bit of a reputation with the ladies and all athletic and in a frat but he had a whole other side that Nora got to know as she was roommates with his best friend (yes, the guy she had a drunken one night stand with). You know it's gonna be messy but I could tell Nora and Crosbie were adorable together. He revealed his dorky side with his illusions and his studying for quizzes weeks before they were due and he saw she was not the boring workaholic she tried to make it seem like she was. 

This was a brilliant book. I couldn't stop reading. I finished in two days when I was working. This is practically unheard of in my current reading life and I would definitely read again.

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When I first saw this book a few months ago, I dismissed it because the cover (and even the synopsis, to a certain degree) led me to believe it would be another new adult book with a love triangle. I don't always mind that, but I just wasn't in the mood. After seeing pretty much every single one of my blogger friends posting about how much they LOVED THIS BOOK, I started paying a little more attention to it and read a couple reviews. After being reassured it was NOT a love triangle, I put it on my wish list. I bought it on a whim and read it in just a little over a day. Hyped books don't always live up to my expectations but this one did more than that – it exceeded them. 

If you're looking for a new adult book that will stand out from the pack, this is the one you want. The characters were flawed and real. It's like reading about people that could've been me or my friends in college. It was so easy to relate to Nora. I started crushing on Crosbie almost immediately. There was so much more to him than met the eye – or the rumor mill. I enjoyed reading along as they got to know each other, fell for each other and ultimately battled their own choices from the past. Everything wasn't always rosy, but it was so very good and realistic that I didn't even want to stop reading. I was totally hooked on these characters and their story. It almost makes me wish this book was a series, because I was sad when it was over. I wanted more. This'll be one of those books that I reread over and over again just to get a fix. (Now if only it would come out in audiobook format...)

Undecided is the first of Julianna's books that I've read, but since finishing this one I've picked up a couple of her backlist titles from Amazon. I've not read any of them yet, but I'm sure I'll be doing it soon. I really enjoyed her writing and look forward to reading more from her. 

FAVORITE QUOTES

  
Forget about handsome. I'm looking for serious. Responsible. Didn't-have-sex-with-and0-then-forget-me.

I know things are bad for me, but I do them anyway. And letting those stray shoots of feelings for Crosbie stay when I should have gotten down on my hands and knees and torn them up before they could take root–that was a mistake.

I chose one end of the spectrum and I stayed there. Confront my demons or ignore them? Hello, denial. I'm Nora.

Kellan is the crush everybody has. Crosbie is the sidekick. He's the Nora to Kellan's Marcela. He's the one you forget. 

"Maybe it's a big deal for them. Maybe they loved it. Maybe they hated it. Maybe they regret it. But maybe it's more than some stupid game or some bathroom wall or some list in my living room."

"Sometimes you mess around and you can't stop thinking about it. And then you're not messing around at all. We're not just messing around, Nora. At least I'm not. And I'm not sleeping around. From the day I saw you until now, there hasn't been anybody else. I can't say it any better." 

"And you helped me paint over that bathroom wall. Like the choices I made last year, the ones I regret, were okay. Because that's what happens in college. You make mistakes. And you learn from them." 

"You see what you want to see, and sometimes you see what I want you to see."

Lacey

Such a fantastic NA read!! This is closer to a 4.5 – I adored it! Can't wait for Kellan's book!!!

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