Motion by Penny Reid

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Title: Motion
Author: Penny Reid
Series: Laws of Physics #1, Hypothesis #2.1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Format: eARC
Pages: 200
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Source: Social Butterfly PR
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 New Release Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Winter 2018
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My rating:

Blurb:

Forced to lie to protect her sister . . .From the New York Times Bestselling Author, Penny Reid

One week.Home alone.Girl genius.Unrepentant slacker.Big lie.What’s the worst that could happen?

Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at fifteen, finish college at eighteen, and start your PhD program at nineteen, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled. Which is why Abram, her brother’s best friend, is such an irritant.

Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care. He does what he feels, when he feels, and—in Mona’s opinion—he makes her feel entirely too much.

Laws of Physics is the second trilogy in the Hypothesis series; Laws of Physics parts 1 (MOTION) & 2 (SPACE) end with a cliffhanger.

My Review:

I received a free copy through Social Butterfly PR in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.

4.5 stars — Wow.  I mean, I was just freaking sucked into this book from start to finish.  OK, OK, I will admit that at the end I became impatient, because I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and I would skip ahead a few pages…we all knew the cliffhanger was coming.  But besides that bout of impatient insanity, I was just charmed by Mona from page 1.  (and as an aside, the cliffhanger wasn’t a surprise — both in that I knew it was coming, and just by the nature of the story that was being told, and particularly if you’d read Elements of Chemistry, or had looked at Penny Reid’s timeline of books, then the ending isn’t really a surprise so much as something you’re dreading)

First, can I just say that there were so many hilarious scenes that will live in my mind in perpetuity, and in particular the donut scene will remain one of my faves forever and ever amen.  Also, the phrases…OMG the phrases…

Seriously though, Mona. Was. Everything.  She was amazing.  She was hilarious.  Even as I’m nothing like her, I was able to connect with her and all she was feeling and going through.  Ms. Reid often writes heroines that are anti-feelings/emotions, and I usually have a hard time relating to that since I’m all feelings all the time.  But for some reason Mona made it easier somehow.  She was quirky, and endearing, and earnest, and clueless, and lonely, and misunderstood, and just…authentic.  And my heart hurt for Mona’s childhood and the effects of that on who she became.

And Abram was so much more than I was anticipating.  I liked him in Elements of Chemistry, but I LOVED him here.  Seeing the changes that came over him as he fell for Mona was just endearing and heartbreaking.  The dimples, the smile covering, the sensitivity.  OH GOD.  My heart ACHED for him.  ACHED.  Because I knew who he became.  And I didn’t want him to be hurt.  We don’t get one smidge of his POV, but everything I saw through Mona’s eyes made me fall in love.

And fuck, I felt the chemistry too.  Like ALL OF IT.  Friendship, steamy, EVERYTHING.  Seriously, I think I fell in love with Mona right along Abram…I was equally enchanted by all her glorious quirkiness.  And vice versa…I fell for Abram right alongside Mona.

I wanted life to be different for them.  I understood Mona’s choices, and I ached for her because the choices she made made sense for her.  But OH GOD.  Why??  Why do authors have to torture perfectly lovable characters like this??

One thing that really surprised me was the way her relationship with Gabby changed and developed over the course of the book.  I LOVED that.  I always love it when characters that would be one-dimensional caricatures in other books get their three-dimensional due.  I’m hoping we get that from Lisa as well.

Anyways.  I’m frightened.  My heart hurts.  I cried.  I felt so much.  Basically, success.  Let the waiting begin.

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