Our protagonist, sixteen-year-old Erin Robert’s life is about to be changed forever when after a quick fumble in her parent’s garage one night she finds herself pregnant with twins. Love Punked tells the story of how her whole future changes at that moment and how she meets the challenge of being the mother of twins at such an early age.

Erin is helped along the way by her strong family support and some good friends, friends everyone should have as they are so likeable and supportive.

I Loved Erin and I liked the way she slowly developed into adulthood. Ms. Lucas didn’t show the readers how fabulous or how bad it would be to have twins at sixteen, she also didn’t write Erin as suddenly growing up and being all responsible. There was a good balance, which made the story feel very realistic.

There is a lot of emotion in this book, everything you would expect a young girl growing up to go through, love, friendship, loss, and heartbreak to name but a few. It sometimes felt like a bit of a roller coaster but it showed the true side of being a teenager, growing up, being a mum, etc.

I particularly liked the humour in the book, as I found myself giggling along quite a few times, however, I personally didn’t like the sex scenes, but then I am a bit older than the targeted market, so older YA readers might not have an issue. I also feel that the book was also a little too long.

The ending was predictable, but it did not spoil anything for me or take anything away from the plot and was satisfying. If you grew up in the 90s, this book will have you reminiscing about the era too, whilst younger readers will get a sense of what the 90s were truly like.

For older YA readers I would fully recommend this book as it has an amazing cast of characters and a realistic plot.

I am a UK based author of contemporary fiction who is passionate about telling the stories of strong, sympathetic, entertaining and engaging characters and the lives that they lead. My Welsh heritage and my life as a practising Social Worker with teenagers and their families heavily influences my work as does my love of all things 90’s and a misspent youth immersed in clubbing culture.

My books like to dip their toes in multiple genres – Contemporary Fiction, New Adult, ChickLit, Romantic fiction and even Suspense. I like to keep my options open and my readers hooked. My first novel, ‘Love Punked’ is now available on Amazon, rated 5*.

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