Shredded

In Tracy Wolff's Shredded, the first installment in the Extreme Risk New adult sports romance series, this debut would make you want to barge a run and do a flip in the air. For Z Michaels, he's a twenty-one-year-old professional snowboarder who has aspirations to win Olympic gold. He's a rebel without a cause and loves to shred the powder with his besties, Cam, Lucas and Ash, in Park City, Utah. Underneath his tattoos and his piercings, he has a lot of emotional baggage from a family tragedy in his past. But when he meets Ophelia, the new girl who's a barista at the lodge, it was more than love at first sight between them when she spilled coffee on his pants. Ophelia has her own emotional scars and faceda tragedy from New Orleans, when she lives and works with her aunt and uncle. At first, she didn't want to make about Z and wanted nothing to do with him or the bet that his friends placed on them that they would hook up by the end of the week. During the span of that week, while Z trains for the Winter X-Games in Aspen, he had gotten under her skin and protects her from any lurking dangers during night. But when he Z had performed a crazy stunt in the backcountry that went viral, Ophelia was shocked and appalled on his recklessness. During the X-Games, Z had gotten injured and running scared with a shocking ending.

This was an awesome debut that features the extreme sports world of snowboarding. I never read any new adult titles before, and I rarely read young adult. Now I think it's time for a change to read more New Adult or Young adult titles, maybe both.. I did care for Z (wonder if it's short for Zachary) and how he had so much emotional baggage he carried for over a decade. I did love how he shredded the powder and performed some pretty cool aerial tricks during Slopestyle and also on the Half-pipe. I also cared for Ophelia and how she was her own person with her own issues and had been the one to melt Z's heart.  I loved the Park City settings and the epic locations around the ski resort for this snowboarding sports romance series. This would make you want to grab a snowboard and barge a run of your own with non-stop action, plenty of sporting drama, sparks of romance, and lots of suspense to keep you wanting more.

(P.S. I've read this book for fun and for research for my sports romantic romantic suspense, Dead Heat, and might be use as a prop if I'm not agented by summer. I would be reading more of the series in the future.)

Will you take a chance to read Shredded and perform a YOLO flip tonight?