I’d
like to start off this review by saying that despite the fact that Jennifer
Probst is an author who has been on my radar for years, Everywhere and Every Way is actually the first book by Probst that
I’ve ever read. I decided to finally check out Jennifer Probst’s books after I
saw a tweet that Emma Chase had retweeted on Twitter, which included a link to
a list of books that are available to purchase from the iTunes store that
Jennifer Probst had recommended people read, with Emma Chase’s first book, Tangled, being on the list. That got me
thinking about how I had been interested in checking out Jennifer Probst’s
books for quite a few years now. For the record, I’m pretty sure that I had
come across Probst’s books long before I even discovered Emma Chase’s Tangled series back in 2014, but Emma
Chase ultimately played a big part in convincing me to finally take the plunge
and read one of Jennifer Probst’s books. Originally, I was planning to read The Marriage Bargain first, and I even
bought the audiobook version of The
Marriage Bargain, but I ultimately decided to read and review Everywhere and Every Way first instead since
this is Probst’s latest book; that being said, here are my thoughts on Everywhere and Every Way.
Right
off the bat, I have to say that much like Emma Chase’s Tangled and Legal Briefs
series, as well as Christina Lauren’s book Beautiful Bastard have all exceeded the expectations that I
usually have for the romance genre, Everywhere
and Every Way also exceeded the expectations that I usually have for the
genre. If I’m being honest, while I truly believe that Emma Chase and Christina
Lauren have definitely both raised the bar in terms of what I expect from a
good romance novel; in some ways, I feel like Jennifer Probst managed to exceed
some of those expectations when it comes to the writing for this book.
Having
recently read and reviewed the book Winter by Marissa Meyer, which is definitely a book that I personally think has a
lot of issues with the overall pacing of the plot moving too slow for somewhat
large chunks of the book, and the fact that that book is slightly over 800
pages long didn’t help those issues; one thing that I really thought Jennifer
Probst did a great job of in terms of the writing for Everywhere and Every Way, is that the overall pacing of the plot
moved at the perfect pace for the most part. While I think that having certain
parts of any book be very exposition heavy can subsequently cause the plot of a
book to feel like it’s being bogged down, and moving too slow; Probst definitely
did a great job of handling exposition throughout the book when she needed to.
I thought that was especially the case at the beginning of the book, when she
was establishing the overall premise of the book, without it feeling like the
plot of the book was moving too slow.
