Underneath the goody two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her?Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter. Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak. Not a hair out of place, not an inch out of line, she is everything her troublemaking sister Daria isn't. But when her A game turns out to be a lukewarm C- at Juilliard, Bailey's picture-ready life starts fraying faster than the worn satin ribbons of her pointe shoes. She's becoming a piece of gossip. The Troubled Child. A drug abuser. No longer the girl her best friend once knew.Lev Cole is so golden, he's got the Midas Touch. Prized quarterback. Football captain. Hottest guy in SoCal. A textbook cliché. But with a girlfriend he doesn't love and a career path he doesn't value, Lev is coasting.The only two things he cares about, Bailey and becoming a pilot, are out of reach.But Lev is done being satisfied with the life others have chosen for him. He wants to pick his own cards. To demolish the seamless kingdom of lies his family stitched together on the ruins his mother left behind.The question is, can he save his best friend and his dream before too much damage is done?
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Damaged Goods
By L. J. Shen
Underneath the goody two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her?Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter. Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak. Not a hair out of place, not an inch out of line, she is everything her troublemaking sister Daria isn't. But when her A game turns out to be a lukewarm C- at Juilliard, Bailey's picture-ready life starts fraying faster than the worn satin ribbons of her pointe shoes. She's becoming a piece of gossip. The Troubled Child. A drug abuser. No longer the girl her best friend once knew.Lev Cole is so golden, he's got the Midas Touch. Prized quarterback. Football captain. Hottest guy in SoCal. A textbook cliché. But with a girlfriend he doesn't love and a career path he doesn't value, Lev is coasting.The only two things he cares about, Bailey and becoming a pilot, are out of reach.But Lev is done being satisfied with the life others have chosen for him. He wants to pick his own cards. To demolish the seamless kingdom of lies his family stitched together on the ruins his mother left behind.The question is, can he save his best friend and his dream before too much damage is done?
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Reviewed by Nina DonataFinally after allready starting this read for a second time i found a minute to sit down and trying to do this masterpeace of a book while sharing my thoughts and feelings. The moment i saw that this book ea going to come my mind was freaking out about the questions what is going to happen. I mean reading this Blurb told me alot to my brain for ideas. Creating Story arcs that i freaking get touched by is masterdisciplin by Miss Shen. Her stories starting with sitiation that makes you think if it is starting in this way how its going to go futher in. Cause this point in this was allready like So hallo here i Am deal with me. Also feeling like this beeing back home in this book cause that book showed me Characters again whom started my Shen girl Era. Seeing how their Families had grown since them first time i met this. As you know i freaking love this authors way of choosing words for drawing her characters in a way that i personally fall in love with in a new way on every page. This was because it fellt really realistic to me. Bailey and Lev both are young People who have there own hearts and dealing with their problems in different ways. Bailey is a young lady who shows us that beeing perfect is not everthing. She wants to fight for reaching her dreams without any fails in her eyes. She is a smart young women who isn't reacting well to the situation shes is in. Bailey shows us that not everything glittering is really golden Lev also is a young who deals with a lot of problems that are real for Boys and girls in his age. He definitely seems to be grown up. But there are situations in wich he i isn't his emotions well. But all in all he a golden heart. Troughout reading those characters love story and i cried i laughed and sometimes i had moments where i just wanted to tell this character You are good just the way you are. There devolopment was written really well and so realistic for me. This reminded me of persons i have in my life where subtnace missuse didn't end in a good way. All in Damaged goods is an emotional read and a rolercoaster. I really connected to this Couple and the Story they shared with us. It's still in my mind and it will stay there. It's been a real journey and a realistic telling of a story that shows us important things.