What a Boy Wants by Nyrae Dawn

What a Boy Wants (What A Boy Wants, #1)

by Nyrae Dawn

If you adore Jennifer E. Smith's The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and Jessica Park's Flat-Out Love, you'll love this book.

Courtesy of watching his mom's relationships, Sebastian Hawkins knows what girls need to do to get a guy. He has what he considers a PHD in hooking up. When he needs extra cash for a car, Sebastian starts up an online venture as The Hook-up Doctor, to anonymously help girls land the guy of their dreams. Of course, his services don't offer a happily-ever-after guarantee. He's seen firsthand getting together never means staying together.

And then he falls in love...
With the last girl he would expect...
Totally not in his game plan.

Suddenly, Sebastian finds himself muddled in the game he's always prided himself on. He can't even pick up girls at parties anymore! Why would anyone want to be in love when it turns you into a stuttering, screwed-up, mess with really lame stalker tendencies? Stalking? Totally not his gig.

But the Hook-up Doctor won't let himself go down easily. He's always known how to give a girl what she wants and now it's time to figure out what a boy wants... and he definitely plans on getting it.

A companion novel to What a Boy Needs.

Reviewed by Raven on

2 of 5 stars

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Sebastian Hawkins is the Hook-up Doctor. He knows how to help a girl get any guy but because he has spent so much time watching his Mother's failed relationships, he doesnt believe in love. When he starts falling for his best friend, he realizes he is in way over his head and doesnt have a clue.

I was horribly disappointed with this book. The plot seemed promising and cute and Im a sucker for the name Sebastian so I dove right in.

Sabastian drove me a bit nutty. I didnt like how he talked. The whole time I just wasnt too crazy about the fact that he was the main character. Aspen seemed really nice, but I couldnt connect with her. Pris was such a side character that I couldnt connect with her. Out of everyone, Jayden was the most interesting character and he was as much in the background as Pris was.

What bothered me the most with this book was how predictable it was. I knew exactly how the book was going to play out, exactly how it would end by the end of Chapter Two. You should never know how a book will end that early! I kept reading, hoping I would be wrong, but everything played out exactly as I thought it would and that just killed it for me.

The book wasnt completely dull, but I couldnt connect to the characters or the story. Knowing how it would end before the book had even really started was awful. If you are desperate for something fast and light that you wont get connected to, its a good read. Otherwise, dont waste your time.

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