Beautiful Experiment by January Valentine Review

Title: Beautiful Experiment
Series: Island of Defiance, Book 1
Author: January Valentine
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal Fantasy Romance
Pages: 332
Price: $2.99 or FREE for Prime Members
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Book Synopsis:

Six unruly teens are abducted on their way to a juvie home. Dumped onto an uncharted island. Could things get any worse? Hell, yeah. Hostility and envy run rampant. Throw in some alphas, divas and demons, and what do you have? Beautiful Experiment. Book One of the Island of Defiance Trilogy.

The teens are referred to as waywards, informed their parents have sent them to the island for rehabilitation. While they struggle with their predicament, and each other, they come to a shocking realization ... for once in their lives, they have to follow rules.

Brook has lived on the Island of Defiance his entire life, with no choice but to believe everything he has been taught. As he approaches eighteen, the secret of who he is, and the ultimate fate he must face, begins to unfold. To complicate matters even more, Brook grows to experience something he has never known ... love.

How do you convince a stranger a dreadful mistake has been made? Gabriella Winslow is an honors student who has always helped others, but now has to fight for herself. Something unimaginable wants her as much as the beautiful island boy with whom she is falling in love.

Beautiful Experiment is Book One of The Island Of Defiance Trilogy (paranormal - fantasy - romance - for teens and adults) Mature 17+ for adult language, drugs & alcohol, mild sexual situations & violence.

Review: 

Beautiful Experiment is an excellent blend of new adult and paranormal romance. Those in their junior or senior years of high school, or early college years, will really enjoy this book. January Valentine has crafted a well-written story that can help teens escape their mundane schoolwork and realize that life could always be worse - or least stranger - than the boring school rooms they're currently stuck in. Fall in love with these characters and get ready to eagerly await book two.