I am honoured to be the first to reveal that the new title of Chase will be What Happens To Men When They Move To Manhattan! It will be released under this amazing and perfectly fitting new name by Harper Impulse on 24th July.
Here is what the new cover will look like!
Here is what the new cover will look like!
The question that 23-year old Amalia Hastings wants the answer to is: What happens to men when they move to Manhattan?
She thought she had everything she wanted – a new apartment in Manhattan, a first-rate education at NYU, a group of trusted friends and Nicholas, a boyfriend who she once believed was her soul-mate. But somehow, it isn’t enough.
Stumbling through her relationships, Amalia encounters Michael. An attractive classmate who quickly moves from being one of her close friends, to an inconsistent friend-with-benefits. After all, the only thing consistent about New York is its beauty.
After getting terribly lost searching for love in all the wrong places, Amalia finds herself torn between the possibility of a relationship, and an adventure she's been planning all along.
She eventually realizes that solely chasing love closes her off to all of the other good things life has to offer. Now she must decide – what is worth the chase?
I’m usually a bit hesitant when it comes to reading US YA novels as being from the UK I sometimes worry that I wouldn't be able to relate to the story, the culture or the places mentioned, and in turn not enjoy the book in the way that I should, but I did not have a problem relating to Amalia or New York at all. Although I've never been (but am desperate to go), the way Jill has written the story means that you don’t have to be familiar with America at all, the places she mentions are well known throughout the world, as is the music and everything else is a chance to learn as you are reading. This book reminded me a lot of Sex and The City as the lives of the characters in the book are similar to those in SATC.
I loved this book, it was such a quick and easy read with an incredible flowing story. I got completely sucked into the storyline and Amalia’s life, I loved that it is just centered around her love life, chasing things that she thinks she wants and in the end realising what she really does want and the things she needs to give up on. This book is so real and uses real life experiences that are very common.
I related to Amalia so much with the fact that she just wanted to fit in and be liked and lots of bad things just keep happening to her through no fault of her own. Her boyfriend whom she thought was ‘the one’ dumps her and then when she thinks she’s in love again he turns out to be a complete idiot. She learns a lot of life lessons throughout the book and just gets stronger and stronger as a woman and character. She is not afraid to admit her mistakes and I love the scenes in the book where she tells people exactly how she feels and what she thinks of them!
Another good thing about this book is that you really get to know her friends, which often doesn't happen, and each of their very different but great personalities, you felt as though they were as much main characters as Amalia was. I loved how different they all were but all came together for their friend when she needed them most. I think Cassandra would have to be my favourite though as she was much more eccentric than the others and buys the best Christmas gifts haha!
I don’t want to say too much about this book because it is amazing and I think everybody should get a copy when it is released in July! I know I am definitely going to get another copy!
The ending of the book was so unexpected and it leaves you completely unaware what is going to happen next, which leaves the perfect opening for book 2! I can’t wait to see what happens when Amalia returns in the next book, will she get back together with Nicholas? Will Michael turn out to be a nice guy after all?
Thank you to Jill for sending me a review copy of this wonderful book. This book gets a well deserved 5 out of 5 stars!
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