Love Me Never

Written by Sara Wolf

Narrated by Amy Melissa Bentley

Seventeen-year-old Isis Blake hasn't fallen in love in three years, nine weeks, and five days, and after what happened last time, she intends to keep it that way. Since then she's lost eighty-five pounds, gotten four streaks of purple in her hair, and moved to Buttcrack-of-Nowhere, Ohio, to help her mom escape a bad relationship.

All the girls in her new school want one thing-Jack Hunter, the Ice Prince of East Summit High. Hot as an Armani ad, smart enough to get into Yale, and colder than the Arctic, Jack has never gone out with anyone. Sure, people have seen him downtown with beautiful women, but he's never given high school girls the time of day. Until Isis punches him in the face.

Jack's met his match. Now, suddenly everything is a game. The goal: make the other beg for mercy. The game board: East Summit High. The reward: something neither of them expected.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jul 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781515978503

Sara Wolf

Sara Wolf lives in Portland, Oregon, where the sun can’t get her anymore. When she isn’t pouring her allotted life force into writing, she’s reading, accidentally burning houses down whilst baking, or making faces at her highly appreciative cat. She is the author of the NYT bestselling Lovely Vicious series and the Bring Me Their Hearts series. sarawolfbooks.com

Reviews for Love Me Never

[uanbookaddict · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Where to start with this book. There is so much to love about this book! Isis and Jack's story is a unique and tragic one. One that you will get lost in from the first sentence.
Isis, guarded and sarcastic. She deals with everything through jokes and sarcasm. She hides her emotions under her sleeve. Her intrigue with those around her is interesting. She finds herself in a battle of gossip and wits. All the while, she finds herself drawn to the one boy in town that doesn't allow himself to have relationships because of the past. Then, there is her new found friend. One who willing her accepts her at face value instead of judging her like everyone else.
Jack, the Ice Prince. He keeps to himself. He has severed his friendships from his childhood. However, he finds himself wanting to battle with Isis and know everything about her. Keeping her at arms length proves to be harder than he thought.
These two have their own pasts that they are running from. Secrets can either undo the friendship they build or tear them apart.... Then when the past catches up with one of them, things get hairy... things get dangerous... things get more than messed up....
I loved this story. The back and forth between these two was amusing and entertaining. The secrets... I still don't know all of the secrets... This story is well written. The characters fit perfectly. There was only one thing I didn't like about the book, which has me wondering where Sara Wolf is from... The use of the word "recess" throughout the book... There is no such thing as recess in high school. There is free period, there is study hall, never recess. This bugged me being as it was mentioned many times.

[veronika9ania · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I honestly do not understand why Lovely Vicious has received so many high ratings. This book for me was simply put – just too unrealistic. Not only was the storyline minimal (girl with difficult past meets boy with difficult past) but there were many scenes that were unnecessarily there and there was just no escalation. I found it difficult to connect with Isis mainly because it was as if she suffered a serious case of bipolar and I was finding it difficult keeping up with the constant changes in her emotions and opinions. Also Isis needs to get a serious life if the most important thing to her was winning a war with some guy. The relationship between Isis and Jack was just not doing it for me. I really enjoy a good love/ hate relationship but the conversations and banter between Jack and Isis was just ridiculously overdone and unrealistic. Which leaves me to my last point. It was too fake. I’m all for a little stretch of the imagination, but this was just ridiculous. I mean a principle hanging up a student’s private pictures around the school??? I mean come on! I was expecting a lot from this book after reading other reviews but I was greatly disappointed. I will most definitely not be continuing this series.

[kate.good · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Son of a biscuit eater!! Damn Cliffhanger.
Review to come since I am all confuzzled at the moment.

Mmmmmkay. Here we go!
First of all, know that this book is definitely YA. We are talking high school kids here. No sexy time for you! ;)

Now, here’s what I really liked about this book:
The writing was terrific. The banter, the wittiness, the intelligence…all just wonderful.
The characters were really well created. I felt like I really got a great sense of who they are and what made them that way.
The story was captivating from the first page. I really wanted to find out what was going to happen.

Now, here’s where I struggled:
I had to suspend my sense of reality. There was a lot of unrealistic stuff happening. That’s not to say it wasn’t a great story…just know that you will be going “no way, that would NEVER happen!!”
The damn cliffhanger. Argh!!!
I was confused at the end. I am not going to spoil it, but there is something that happens that made me wonder what the heck was happening and now I have to wait for the damn second book!!!

Bottom line:
Yes, you should read this series. It’s interesting, it’s captivating and certainly a well written book. I would LOVE to see what the author would do with an adult book!

[sharonhd-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

3 to 3.5 stars. huge cliffhanger and so much hinting that isis has been raped without addressing it directly is a let down. wait for the sequel to buy this book.