“It makes you feel all the feels. And it lets you know that it’s okay to feel it all.” -Cookie O’Gorman, The Art of Taking Chances Foreword
In love, you have to leap to feel the rush. From first kisses to second chances and celebrity encounters, this collection of young adult contemporary romance short stories has it all. A forbidden game of truth or dare turns into summer love, a chemistry lab … game of truth or dare turns into summer love, a chemistry lab explosion leads to fireworks, a last-minute to-do list becomes an end-of-summer road trip. But first, they’ll have to take the leap.
These delightful, swoon-worthy stories will have you ready to take an adventure of your own. Take a chance and download the collection free today.
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This book is great for road trips since it has a collection of short stories. I definitely recommend this to anyone. Especially lovers of cute romances and contemporaries.
Win or Lose, Take a Chance!
Fangirl by Deberah Balogun
Forever and Always by Seven Steps
The Friend Rules by Melanie Hooyenga
More Than A List by Yesenia Vargas
(Not So) Perfect Chemistry by Kayla Tirrell
Spark by Sally Henson
Tell Me Something Real by Kelsie Stelting
Tickets On Himself by Kat Colmer
Unstoppable Love by Michele Mathews
This is a Young Adult anthology written by 9 excellent authors. All of the stories are centered around taking a chance by stepping out of one’s comfort zone and either loving or losing. All of the stories are sweet and clean. Each story is realistic and believable. In fact, many of these scenarios have happened in my circle of friends. Nicely done all the way around! I received this book for free and voluntarily chose to post my honest review.
The Art of Taking Chances – Short young adult romance stories from nine different authors. The stories run the gamut from enemies-to-lovers, best-friends-to-lovers, second chance, etc. Except for Kelsie, all these authors are new to me, although I recognize the names of Seven and Yesenia. I didn’t have time to read all the stories at this time; my apologies to the other contributors. 5*
Deborah Balogun, Fangirl – Too young for me, but well written. I don’t know how they got backstage and I guess they were found by the social media bit. The characters were interesting and story was happy. 3*
Seven Steps, Forever and Always – Too young for me, but well written and interesting. It’s sad the boy chose fire, but otherwise the story was entertaining. I liked the characters, especially Peter for being brave with Wendy, but not his choice for her release. 5*
Melanie Hooyenga, The Friend Rules
Yesenia Vargas, More Than a List
Kayla Tirrell, (Not So) Perfect Chemistry
Sally Henson, Spark
Kelsie Stelting, Tell Me Something Real – I enjoy reading stories by Kelsie: she’s refreshing, fun and mature in her writings. This is a well written, interesting story about a high school aged female meeting a twenty-year-old young man at a stock tank on her ranch in Texas. I don’t care for this age group, but Kelsie always make her young characters interesting and mature (good sense) for their age. 5*
Kat Colmer, Tickets On Himself
Michele Mathews, Unstoppable Love
I really enjoyed “The Art of Taking Chances” by Kelsie Stelting. I originally signed up for a complementary copy of this collection in exchange for an honest review specifically for “The Spark” by Sally Henson. However, all of the stories included are short, quick reads and were great teasers for other series and presented a quick look into other writing styles. I would gladly recommend this collection to any one looking a fun weekend read.
Happy Reading…enjoy!
Nine sweet stories about love, second chances, best friends, self confidence, misunderstandings and everything in between that comes hand to hand with being a teenager, this difficult but great time in life between childhood and adulthood, and the demos all we have to face. Great for young adults to read.