The Wild One: A Brooklyn Girls Novel

by Gemma Burgess

Overview

Sweet, innocent Coco has always been the good one. But when she catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she decides it's time to break bad.

Coco swiftly goes from spending all her time baking and reading to working nights in (and dancing on) a bar, falling in and out of love (and lust), stealing education - and along the way discovers that she is stronger than she ever knew... In a time when her best friends are suddenly plunged into break ups, break-downs, big breaks, and on the verging of quitting New York City altogether, it's up to Coco to keep them together and find herself along the way.

Gemma Burgess' The Wild One: A Brooklyn Girls Novel is the inspiring story about the turmoil, uncertainty, and heartache that every twenty something faces and survives - with the help of her friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250000873
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/10/2015
Series:	Brooklyn Girls , #3
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

GEMMA BURGESS spent her twenties getting lost, drunk, dumped, fired, or in a state of mild hysteria, and still managed to have some of the best times of her life. She lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

09/14/2015
Burgess’s third Brooklyn Girls contemporary (after Love and Chaos) is fluffy fun. Coco is known to her family and friends as the good girl who needs to be protected, coddled, and downright bossed around. When she catches her boyfriend cheating, she’s too afraid to confront him. Instead she resolves to do something new with her life and turn her good-girl image around. She quits the job she hates, finds work in a bar, and has no-strings sex with her hot new boss. Though the opening to this story makes Coco and her friends look wildly immature and even a little obnoxious, Burgess soon finds her voice, and the character gains depth as a young woman struggling to find her independence from well-intentioned loved ones while trying to create a place of her own in a busy, complicated, and unfair world. Coco’s growth and development may not be smooth but are mostly believable, though readers will yawn over her dragged-out refusal to realize that her fling is starting to turn into love. Nevertheless, the changes in the heroine and her life are welcome and enjoyable. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

A sassy summer confection.” —The New York Times on Brooklyn Girls

“Hilarious and touching, this is a page-turner that will leave readers wanting more!” —Romantic Times on Brooklyn Girls

“I tore through this hilarious book...Gemma has created a witty and wonderful world of surprising modern heroines.” —Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo, on Brooklyn Girls

“[A] fun, frothy read about making it in the Big Apple.” —Fitness Magazine on Brooklyn Girls

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