Indecent Exposure by Tessa Bailey 5 ✭

Title: Indecent Exposure
Author: Tessa Bailey
Series: The Academy
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Genre: New Adult & College, Romance, Contemporary Romance
Advanced Reader Copy: Yes
Total Pages: 384
Ages Recommended: 18+ Available in Paperback & Kindle Formats
My Rating: ✭✭✭✭✭

Indecent Exposure is a prime example of how I think a New Adult genre book should be composed. When I think of New Adult & College books, I expect to feel hopeful for love or the chance of falling in love, almost still like you're in high school. When you read it, you want to feel like the characters are mature enough to be confident or at least responsible in their lives as if they are finally beginning their life as an adult. Tessa Bailey has captured the time of being hopeful to fall in love and the maturity of having more confidence in yourself and the responsibilities of being an adult.

The characters are still young enough to be naive, and they can learn and grow as the story goes. The character development is impressive. I will say that I feel like the focus is more on Jack Garrett and his past rather than Katie. However, Katie is the perfect counter to his problem. 

Let's just say that at the start of the book Jack comes off as a typical twenty something male who is smoking hot and he knows it. He is always out bar hopping just to make the day go by. As the story develops you realize that it is more than that. Jack is a young man with a problem that he himself isn't even aware of. He is broken but oblivious to how broken he actually is. Katie is innocent and witty. I fell in love with her to a little. Jack at one point notices that she has a sense of humor but doesn't use it to flirt. That felt like a key attribute about Katie McCoy to me.


This was my first book to read by Tessa Bailey. I was #blessed by the books gods with getting an ARC to read, and I do mean blessed. I am looking forward to reading more by Tessa Bailey. This is a book that I would willingly buy no matter the cost and the cost is worth it. I was beyond happy with this read. Thankfully there is more to the series as this is the second book in the Academy series. So far there looks like there is going to be three books.

I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who loves a good romance. This was a charming romance that made me feel like my heart was invested in the characters and the story. I think what made the whole book so lovable was that it was written as such an amazing new adult book. However, it does have mature content obviously, it is not a young adult book. So I would say the reader should be 18 or older.

TL;DR Version - BUY THIS BOOK! It is a real book and not just a happily ever after romp read.



Other current books in the series:
Books One: Disorderly Conduct by Tessa Bailey
Release Date: August 29, 2017

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…Police academy cadet Charlie Burns can’t believe his luck when the gorgeous blonde he meets in a bar murmurs those magic words: “Nothing serious, ’kay?” Mind-blowing, no-strings sex with Ever Carmichael—it’s the holy grail of hookups for a guy who’s too busy following in his law enforcement family’s footsteps to think about getting serious. Charlie’s all about casual…that is, until Ever calls it quits and his world tilts on its axis.
Ever knows that when you control the relationship game, you can’t get played. But for the first time, she wants more than short-term satisfaction. Step one: end her fling with commitment-phobic Charlie. Step two: sacrifice herself to the ruthless NYC dating scene. Yet everywhere she turns, there’s Charlie, being his ridiculously charming self. No online match or blind date compares to the criminally hot cop-in-training, but they’re over. Aren’t they?
If love is a four-letter-word, why does the idea of Ever seeing someone else tie Charlie up in knots?  Now he’s desperate to win her back…and a little date sabotage never hurt anyone, right?