Popping the Cherry by Aurelia B. Rowl is the 1st in her Facing the Music series of f/m New Adult contemporary romances centred around high schoolers transitioning to college and finding out that Things Are No Longer As They Were, this installment involving a girl whose friends get together to arrange a perfect virginity-altering life experience for her, if only it weren't for all those pesky prospective candidates who just end up making for comically unpromising dates, free courtesy of publisher Harlequin UK's separate Carina imprint, which
as we have found out previously, seems to be on a mission of denying any and all ties to the mothership's DRM-free Carina Press imprint, and thus does not overlap their catalogue.
This is one of a handful of non-self-pub New Adult 1st-in-series promo freebies in the iTunes store which not only happens to be available in other venues, but also outside the UK (the only one I've found so far, in fact). And like the others thus far, it does seem to be made free to promote the upcoming 3rd-in-series, slated for release later this year.
Currently free, probably just for as long as the iTunes promo lasts @
B&N UK (not free in the
main store, but price-drop-check linkage in case you're feeling optimistic),
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK and possibly other places as a price-match to iTunes internationally),
iTunes (available to Canadians & apparently a lot of places worldwide when I spot-check) &
Kobo (UK-only, as far as I've been able to conveniently check, but YMMV).
Description
You only get one first time...
From driving tests to relationships, Valentina Bell thinks she's a failure, with a big fat capital F. At this rate, she's certain she'll be a virgin forever. So Lena's friends plan Operation: Popping the Cherry to help her find the perfect first time. Yet somehow disastrous dates with bad boy musicians and fabulous evenings with secretly in-the-closet guys aren't quite working out how Lena planned. Soon Lena's avoiding Operation: Popping the Cherry to spend time with comforting, aloof Jake, her best friend's older brother ,who doesn't make her feel self-conscious about still clinging to her V card. But could Jake show Lena that sometimes what you're looking for most is right by your side?
A Forever
for the 21st Century <-- I have no idea what this bit means; help me
Obi Wan Kenobi NA readers, is "Forever" a particularly landmark NA book or some sort of classic old school contemporary coming-of-age romance novel that this story updates or whatnot?
