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kdawn's review
5.0
I won this book in a goodreads giveaway. I loved this book so much!! I love the series, they are fun books and I can't wait to read "A Girl's Best Friend" and find out what happens to Tess and everybody else next!!
mildlyjulie's review
2.0
I’m just here for the photo bits. Which wasn’t much and clearly wasn’t informed by any actual knowledge.
loudgls89's review
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Following on from the first book in this series, What a Girl Wants starts with another dramatic opening. Tess and Amy are in a prison cell, but we have absolutely no idea what has happened in the lead up to this moment. We're then transported back in time and left on tenterhooks waiting to catch up.
Definite spoilers for the first book here, so back away if you haven't read the first in the series yet!
Definite spoilers for the first book here, so back away if you haven't read the first in the series yet!
At the end of the first book, Tess has left Hawaii and Nick has left Tess. But when she gets back to the UK, Charlie is there waiting for her, and he has figured out that he wants Tess to be his girlfriend.
It's quite an abrupt change from Charlie's mood before Tess left for Hawaii, and Tess is not sure. This probably has quite a lot to do with the handsome Nick who has gone awol and is not answering her calls.
Charlie also wants to go into partnership with her on a work basis too - putting together their own ad agency, and while she was in Hawaii, he already has clients lined up for them.
Then Tess is offered an amazing opportunity to fly to Milan to work on a project with Al, the fashion designer she was working with in Hawaii. He seems to have a soft spot for Tess and it's her dream career.
When Charlie tells Tess that he loves her and her reaction is not exactly ideal, she decides to fly out to Milan for a week for this job. And who would be there but Nick...
I won't go into too many more details before I spoil the whole book, but what I will say is that I found it very hard to judge characters throughout this book. I swung wildly between thinking Nick was amazing, to thinking he was a complete idiot, to wondering if he was behind one of the shadier parts of the storyline.
I also had my misgivings about Amy, Paige and Kekipi, so you can probably tell I found it quite hard to predict how this book would end.
I'm so glad I have book 3 to move straight on to this weekend, I can't wait to see what happens for Tess next.
jayvall's review
3.0
A fun sequel to [b:About a Girl|22307920|About a Girl|Lindsey Kelk|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1413128832s/22307920.jpg|22380777], though I found Nick and his wishy-washy-ness to be tiring, and it didn't endear him to me at all. So many things were left up in the air plot-wise, I have to imagine there's going to be a third book that ties everything up.
leahmichelle_13's review
5.0
Over the past couple of years I have come to firmly love Lindsey Kelk. She has a great brand of humour, and an honest way of writing that I find amusing and super enjoyable. I absolutely devoured About A Girl when I read it last year and I have been dying for the sequel ever since. And if you're wondering I am TEAM NICK, okay? TEAM NICK. You got that? NICK. Not Charlie. NICK. NICK. NICK. So I was SO RIDONKULOUSLY excited to receive a proof copy of What A Girl Wants. As soon as I saw the envelope, I knew what it contained and it just made me happier than I have ever been! It was like all my Christmases has come at once, and I couldn't wait to read it! AND IT DIDN'T DISAPPOINT! Oh, man, did I love it. All the feels, all the laughs, all the drama, it's just a typical Kelk novel, and I adored it!
Unbelievably the Prologue opens with Tess in jail, which by the way was ridiculous. It was like I'd walked into a well-dressed episode of Prison Break. (And that's actually the SECOND time Tess ends up in a cell in the novel, would ya believe?) It was quite the start to the novel, you can't say Kelk doesn't bring in the bangs and the drama from the very beginning because, oh, she does! The action then starts a few days after the end of book one (I think, from what I can remember) and Tess has to make the decision to go to Milan or, er, not go to Milan. (As if that's a decision, psh!) Nick's gone AWOL (oh, Nick, you silly, silent, AWOL type) and Charlie's at the forefront of Tess's romantic world, except she can't stop thinking about Nick (totes inconvenient since he's AWOL, possibly dead) but Charlie's moving way too fast - I love yous and moving in together (from the guy who took TEN YEARS to realise Tess was a girl he was attracted to!) and Tess can't really deal with all of that (Tess is indecisive, I've come to realise) so heads to Milan with BFF Amy to shoot more pictures for the faaaabulous Al, from About A Girl.
I absolutely loved What A Girl Wants, probably more than I did About A Girl. I loved the setting (Milan! I love Italian settings, even though I've never visited), I loved being back with Tess, and Amy, and Kekipi, and Paige, and Nick. They all just grew on me that much more during What A Girl Wants (except for Charlie, who goes further and further down in my estimation the more he appears, so it was good on his part he was hardly in the book, but not really because when he was in the book he was being a plank) and I felt like I really got to know the characters, and I loved being with them - almost as if I was there myself! But what I really, really, really loved was seeing Nick Miller again. There is just something about Nick that is irresistible. He's dark and moody, sure, absolutely gorgeous, sure but it's just the way Kelk writes him.... He knows what he wants and he goes for it, as shown the first night in Milan which was just so hot. I like a man with a temper, and Nick has a bit of a temper that causes some great arguments and ructions between him and Tess and their chemistry is just off the charts. Charlie WHO?
It's the type of novel where you just forget all the things that you might normally take issue with (Tess is indecisive; unable to make a decision or be honest which leads to trouble) but which sort of works, because well, I just didn't care if she wasn't honest with Charlie, ever. Because I could not care less about Charlie Wilder. With the type of romance we get to read between Nick and Tess during Milan, you just don't care about anyone else. Love triangle, what love triangle? Maybe it's my Nick blinkers, but I just don't care for Charlie. He's not a patch of Nick, and I always know a good love story when I see one if it makes me feel all funny in the tummy, and I got it a hundred times over while reading What A Girl Wants. It ain't all plain sailing, mind, but I raced to the end, desperate to know how Tess was going to fix everything. The ending wasn't what I wanted, I'll be honest, but it leads very nicely into book three, because there IS going to be a book three, even if I have to go and hold a gun to Lindsey's head while she writes it. I need my next fix of Tess and the gang. AND MORE OF NICK MILLER. What A Girl Wants is going to be the read of the summer, let me tell you, and it's SO deserving of that honour because it was amazing.
This review was originally posted on Girls Love To Read
Unbelievably the Prologue opens with Tess in jail, which by the way was ridiculous. It was like I'd walked into a well-dressed episode of Prison Break. (And that's actually the SECOND time Tess ends up in a cell in the novel, would ya believe?) It was quite the start to the novel, you can't say Kelk doesn't bring in the bangs and the drama from the very beginning because, oh, she does! The action then starts a few days after the end of book one (I think, from what I can remember) and Tess has to make the decision to go to Milan or, er, not go to Milan. (As if that's a decision, psh!) Nick's gone AWOL (oh, Nick, you silly, silent, AWOL type) and Charlie's at the forefront of Tess's romantic world, except she can't stop thinking about Nick (totes inconvenient since he's AWOL, possibly dead) but Charlie's moving way too fast - I love yous and moving in together (from the guy who took TEN YEARS to realise Tess was a girl he was attracted to!) and Tess can't really deal with all of that (Tess is indecisive, I've come to realise) so heads to Milan with BFF Amy to shoot more pictures for the faaaabulous Al, from About A Girl.
I absolutely loved What A Girl Wants, probably more than I did About A Girl. I loved the setting (Milan! I love Italian settings, even though I've never visited), I loved being back with Tess, and Amy, and Kekipi, and Paige, and Nick. They all just grew on me that much more during What A Girl Wants (except for Charlie, who goes further and further down in my estimation the more he appears, so it was good on his part he was hardly in the book, but not really because when he was in the book he was being a plank) and I felt like I really got to know the characters, and I loved being with them - almost as if I was there myself! But what I really, really, really loved was seeing Nick Miller again. There is just something about Nick that is irresistible. He's dark and moody, sure, absolutely gorgeous, sure but it's just the way Kelk writes him.... He knows what he wants and he goes for it, as shown the first night in Milan which was just so hot. I like a man with a temper, and Nick has a bit of a temper that causes some great arguments and ructions between him and Tess and their chemistry is just off the charts. Charlie WHO?
It's the type of novel where you just forget all the things that you might normally take issue with (Tess is indecisive; unable to make a decision or be honest which leads to trouble) but which sort of works, because well, I just didn't care if she wasn't honest with Charlie, ever. Because I could not care less about Charlie Wilder. With the type of romance we get to read between Nick and Tess during Milan, you just don't care about anyone else. Love triangle, what love triangle? Maybe it's my Nick blinkers, but I just don't care for Charlie. He's not a patch of Nick, and I always know a good love story when I see one if it makes me feel all funny in the tummy, and I got it a hundred times over while reading What A Girl Wants. It ain't all plain sailing, mind, but I raced to the end, desperate to know how Tess was going to fix everything. The ending wasn't what I wanted, I'll be honest, but it leads very nicely into book three, because there IS going to be a book three, even if I have to go and hold a gun to Lindsey's head while she writes it. I need my next fix of Tess and the gang. AND MORE OF NICK MILLER. What A Girl Wants is going to be the read of the summer, let me tell you, and it's SO deserving of that honour because it was amazing.
This review was originally posted on Girls Love To Read
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