Chasing Red by Isabelle Ronin *ARC #Bookreview

Title: Chasing Red
Series: Red #1
Author: Isabelle Ronin
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published Date: September 5th 2017
Genre: NA, Contemporary
Format: Kinde

My Rating: ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 
Find out why millions of readers love Chasing Red

Chasing Red is the Wattpad phenomenon with over 130 million reads, and one million reads each week. Revised and with new original content, it will be published in two volumes, Chasing Red and Always Red. New readers and fans alike will fall in love with Red and Caleb--over and over again.

HER HEART MIGHT BE THE ONE THING HE CAN'T WIN...
When cynical straight-A college student Veronica "Red" Strafford gets kicked out of her apartment, notorious basketball player Caleb Lockhart offers her a place to stay. Intensely drawn to her, Caleb wants something for the first time in his life. But Veronica's painful past makes trusting difficult, and her heart might just be the one thing Caleb can't win.

They said she was going to be my ruin...then let her ruin me. 

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 My Review:

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for an e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Chasing Red was a book I finished in a day! Most of it in fact in just one sitting. I liked Veronica she was a hard working young woman who was just trying to protect herself from the mistakes her parents had made. She was afraid of love and for understandable reasons. She also didn't want charity but also liked feeling safe which is something we all should be able to feel. 
Caleb was a player at first in my opinion, but the more we got to know him and actually see his real personality and not this persona he has created with his friends I actually started to like him.

I also liked the friendships that Veronica made with Kara and how they were truly thier for one another when the other needed them. It was so nice to see especially in a book more focused on romance. 

As for the romance, I'm glad it was mostly taken slow and that Caleb after awhile realized he needed to chill and just let things happen slowly instead of straight to bed like he's used to. The fact that he was willing to wait and actually noticed things about Veronica was something that I did like about him.

Having said that though, he is also extremely possessive of her to a point that it was actually scary at times. Which is why this is getting such a low rating for me. Without the possessiveness, this  would have been a three-star book for me (means I enjoyed it). Also, the unnecessary drama of Beatrice was just annoying, and Justin was just creepy and I hope Caleb realizes that Justin has gotta go.


However I still kind of want to read the next one to see if Caleb starts chilling on the possessiveness and realizes that it isn't okay to do that.