Schooled by Piper Lawson

New Adult Contemporary Romance

Expected Release: June 1, 2015

Twenty-one year old Alexis Caine is so close to her dream she can taste it. And it tastes like validation and Häagen-Dazs.

In a few months she'll graduate with a shiny new business degree and launch a fashion label with her best friend Ava. All the planning, the dedication, and the saying ‘no’ to everything—and everyone—will have been worth it.

Then Dylan Cameron, Ava’s tall, dark and broody younger brother, returns from the East coast. Lex has hardly seen him in years and given his reputation for partying, girls, and worse, that’s just fine with her.

But suddenly Dylan’s all grown up. And a dangerous night of unplanned confessions for both of them threatens to tear Lex's carefully constructed world off its axis.

Because one sassy control freak plus one prodigal son equals chemistry that refuses to be ignored.

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About the Author

Schooled is Piper Lawson’s debut novel. Piper loves reading and writing stories about sassy, sexy, smart women and the guys who fall hard for them.

Piper’s main household expenditures include books, shoes, and chocolate, not necessarily in that order. Coffee = life (and she’ll defend it accordingly, especially when cornered). Piper has two business degrees, neither of which she’s leveraged into a fashion label.

Home is Canada plus occasional sunny winter escapes.

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3 Stars

Schooled is a debut novel for Piper Lawson, and is a stand alone novel with an HEA. It's a college based love story, between Alexis Caine and Dylan Cameron. For a first timer, well done Ms. Lawson. I applaud the efforts.

Best friends Alexis and Ava, have always had a dream to start their own fashion label. Ava, being the designer and, Alexis, would handle the business side of things. Ava is a carefree, artsy type, whilst Alexis, is more cut of the mill, and goes by the book type of girl. Focused and driven because within the fashion industry, fashion is constantly evolving.  It's a grueling industry and timing is everything, especially in light of old favourites within the industry, making cut backs and going bankrupt due to different variables within the market. Alexis, knows that they will only have one chance to get, Travesty, there label off the ground. And missing that one chance, is not something Alexis, takes lightly.

  

Now enter Dylan Cameron, the bad boy within the Cameron household. Dylan is the stud of all the Cameron offspring, so of course his high school years would be plagued with the entire bad boy persona, and filled with raging teenage hormones and lost of girls. Looks are really deceiving. Never judge a book by it's cover. Dylan is such a complex character. He has a bigger heart than he lets on, and such a sweetie pie. So caring and tender, and extremely understanding. He seemed soulful and older than his age. More philosophical to me.

His first semester at college, throws both him and Alexis for a loop, after they meet unexpectedly at her birthday party. Keeping each other company while hiding away in Alexis's bedroom, the stigma Alexis always attached to Dylan, soon looses its meaning. She finds out that Dylan kept secrets to protect his entire family. While he struggled, and endured hardships, based on these secrets. Not for naught, though. Dylan's persistence and perseverance, gave him a full scholarship.

Dylan's reputation precede's him. Bad boy, man-whoring Dylan, is actually more inexperienced than his reputation makes him out to be. Slightly inebriated, and feeling bold, Lexi decides to School Dylan a little, in Anatomy.

Now this is where things really slow down for me. I started to feel, ok, the story is going to WAW! me, but honestly it didn't. I started to get bored with Lexi. Reading this from her POV only, wasn't thrilling at all. I felt we needed some Dylan thoughts here. I thought Lexi was also playing games, and I didn't understand why, after the kiss, and a friendship starting between her and Dylan, she wanted to keep it all a secret. They had such a fantastic, easy going, sarcastic, funny friendship. With loads of sexual tension bursting at the seams. I understood focused and driven, but definitely not, selfish. Lexi came off as scared more than anything else. Ridge even, like her mother. 

As the story progresses, Lexi and Ava, start making stepping stones towards developing and launching their label, while Lexi has a secret affair with Dylan. Soon enough, things turn bad, and Dylan becomes rejected. His pain was more realistic than Lexi's.

For me Schooled was simply an ok read. Lexi and Ava's characters were so different and yet exuded strength and they had so much personality. I really loved Dylan, the quiet, brooding type. I will, without a doubt read more from this author and I am actually looking forward to a second book.

*ARC provided by AToMR PRomotions on behalf of the author for an honest review* Thanks!!