Review: Home (Finding My Home Series Book 1) by Nikita Parmenter

Home by Nikita Parmenter
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Angsty New Adult Contemporary Reverse Harem

This book has a lot of familiar elements to it, if you have read other books in this genre. It has young people in their senior year of high school being reunited after many years apart. The MFC, Everleigh, had an awful life when she was separated from ‘her guys’ at age 8, after the death of her mother. Now age 17, her father is dead and she has been sent back to live with her mother’s friends, who happen to be the parents of one of the 6 boys she was so close to as a little girl.

There is also the standard 'mean girl bullying because she’s jealous' thing going on, which always annoys me. Surely by now, even mean girls should be looking for status from their own meanness rather than appropriating status from whichever idiot makes the mistake of hooking up with her. For once I’d like the mean girl to have a different reason to decide to be the MFC’s enemy than because she’s attracted the attention of a guy the mean girl likes.

I also don’t like that Ever is always monologuing in her head about all the people she’s protected and how tough and dangerous she is, but every time she gets into a physical altercation she needs rescuing.

However, once you step away from the familiar patterns in this book you start to notice that there are things that are handled really nicely. You notice that Ever has a very tight grip on her emotions. She is strong and self contained and always on the defensive. (Another reason it’s so strange she is constantly being taken off guard when she’s hyper-vigilant) She also accepts help when it’s offered, which is nice to see in this kind of book. However, she also acknowledges she has problems and forces herself to talk about her issues.

I like the slow build of the romance in this book. The attraction and emotions are there right from the start but the relationships build gradually, in a believable way.

So all in all I really enjoyed the book, with it’s twisty plot and interesting characters, despite some initial predictability. I’ll probably read the next one, because I really want to know how they get out of this cliffhanger! 

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