Reviews

738 Days by Stacey Kade

jenniferstrand's review against another edition

5.0

I'm going to informally write a formal review this weekend, but I. LOVED. THIS. BOOK. Put this on your radar, heck, go pre-order it right now. This is new adult done right.

irmathebookwhisperer's review against another edition

4.0

Such a beautiful story.

cjaneread's review against another edition

2.0

This book starts out strong. I was hooked at the beginning but it moved at light speed, the story takes place in the span if a week, where she goes from suffering debilitating panic attacks to being a pretty confident young woman. Their romance moves to fast. 2 days after meeting their kissing and by day 3.....you get the picture. I love love LOVE slow moving romances. For the page count and plot I was almost sure this would be one of those sweet satisfying romances where when they finally, finally get together it's a huge payoff. It's not and being dual POV, you see the train wreck coming miles before it happens and it has no impact.
First half of the book is 3-4 stars but last half is 1-2.

kupfermuenze's review against another edition

2.0

Leider hat mich dieses Buch nicht überzeugen können. Die Story klang soooo toll, aber es hat einfach nicht gefunkt zwischen mir und dem Buch.

jsmith6747's review against another edition

5.0

738 Days is by far my favorite of Stacey's books, which is definitely saying a lot. She is one of my favorite authors and I would highly recommend reading any of her books. I enjoyed every page from start to finish. The pacing was perfect and everything wraps up nicely in one novel, which is rarely the case anymore.

My full review is on my blog: http://jacquesbooknook.blogspot.com/2016/06/review-738-days-by-stacey-kade.html

burstnwithbooks's review against another edition

4.0

You know, this book wasn’t what I expected, but it was definitely cute and fun. No regrets!

booksi26's review against another edition

4.0

A powerful storytelling of overcoming trauma, finding trust in yourself, and finding love.

brokenrecord's review against another edition

3.0

I honestly have no idea how to feel about this book. Like, it is definitely majorly flawed. I feel like I should have hated it. But I kind of got attached to the characters and sucked in by the romance despite myself??? It’s kind of insta-love-y in the sense that they’re in love after only knowing each other a few days, but those days span the entire book, so it felt like their relationship was built up despite the quick timeframe, and I did like watching them gradually open up and get to know one another at first. There is an element of, like, Chase loving Amanda helping her ~heal, but at the same time, it is 2 years after her kidnapping, and in the epilogue it’s revealed that she has been going to a sexual violence survivor’s group for a year and got a new therapist who she trusts more, so like… I didn’t feel like it was an intentional or explicit message that Chase’s love alone made everything fine for her, but it still kind of comes off that way. The plot with the stalker and Chase’s fired/not fired publicist was ridiculous and it felt kind of out of place; I would’ve liked if this had just been kind of a quieter novel of them slowly (meaning not just over the course of a few days but over a longer timeframe) bonding and getting to know each other and Amanda healing through her the sexual violence survivor’s group and her new therapist (rather than that just being tacked on in the epilogue) and Chase’s support (not necessarily his love) without the extra drama going on and Chase hiding things from her the entire time. But I also feel like this book could’ve been a lot worse than it was. So I don’t know -- basically I feel like I shouldn’t have liked any of this at all, but I did end up liking parts of it.

lilreebaby's review against another edition

5.0

This book wasn't what I expected it to be, but that made it even better. It was like it took a little bit of each of my favorite elements to read (Celebrities, Dark Kidnap Reads, Damaged Characters) and took it to a different level.

As I said before, a lot of things that happened in this book I didn't expect. Amanda was broken, but at the same time she was so brave. She allowed herself to be broken, but at the same time she fought to heal. It was so good to read. Chase was flawed as well, but in a different way. I am so used to reading the super confident actor who is on top and gets all the girls. Chase wasn't that it was so good because it was like they found each other despite the horrible and contrived circumstances. So many twist and turns in this story and I found myself getting mad when life got in the way and I had to put this down to sleep or eat. Only thing I wish the book had would be the point of view of Chase in the epilogue. Other than that, there is nothing I would change.
5 stars.

blimowery's review

dark inspiring medium-paced

5.0

So good! I couldn't stop listening! It was such an interesting take on an abduction story to have Amanda's imaginary savior come to get in real life. I love that he was also flawed in some very real ways. I'm not a fan of insta-love stories but it worked here. Definitely another trophy for my bookshelf