Best Character Development // 12 Days of Blogmas Day 20

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Can you believe it’s 5 days until Christmas? It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating the new year, and here we are now. A lot has happened since the dumpster fire that was 2020, and 2021 wasn’t much better. But at least we have Christmas and New Year’s to look forward to.

Anyway, I skipped a few days of Blogmas because there was no prompt for those days. But, we’re back! We continue our 12 Days of Blogmas 2021 with Day 20, using Sophie @ Beware of the Reader‘s Blogmas prompts. Hers features Best Character Development of 2021.

Blogmas Day 20: Best Character Development

Wes Carter aka Carter from A Pound of Flesh by Sophie Jackson had excellent character development in the first book of the A Pound of Flesh series. He went from an angry, mopey, depressed, lost criminal, in jail in place of his best friend Max, from someone who did everything he could to prove his innocence. He also used his intelligence, kind nature and generosity to prove to the protagonist (and his English tutor) Kat Lane his worth to her. That last conversation between him and Kat’s overprotective, overbearing mother was probably the most heartfelt I ever read of a male YA character.

I hope this book turns into a movie or show (even though it came out 6 years ago), because I need to see Carter in-person!

A Pound of Flesh by Sophie Jackson
Published by Simon and Schuster on June 9, 2015
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / General, Fiction / Women
Pages: 448
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Orange Is the New Black meets Jennifer Probst’s New York Times bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire trilogy, featuring a strong-minded prison tutor who discovers that her sexy bad-boy student is far more than he appears to be.

Haunted by nightmares of her father’s street murder fifteen years ago, Kat Lane decides to face her fears and uphold his legacy of helping others by teaching inmates at a New York prison. There she meets arrogant Wesley Carter, who’s as handsome as he is dangerous, as mysterious as he is quick-witted, and with a reputation that ensures people will keep their distance.

As teacher and student, Kat and Carter are forced to leave their animosities at the door and learn that one should never judge a book by its cover. As Carter’s barriers begin to crumble, Kat realizes there’s much more to her angry student than she thought, leaving them to face a new, perilous obstacle: their undeniable attraction to one another.

When Carter is released and Kat continues to tutor him on the outside, the obstacles mount. Can they fight the odds to make their relationship work? Will Kat’s family and friends ever accept her being with someone of his background? And will Kat’s discovery of Carter’s role on the night her father died force them apart forever...or unite them?

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