SIDE NOTE: A HUGE shout out goes to my friend Barb who was forced to listen to me bitch about this book the entire time I was reading it. Love you, my friend! *lol*
So I actually wasn't planning on reading this one, but I read the sample and got sucked in and honestly stayed sucked in through the entire train wreck that was this book. Because of that, I have NO clue how to rate this...
The hero was a cheater, and we get a nice graphic scene of her walking in on him right at the start. But as the book goes on I did start to feel sorry for him. He never really has a good excuse. Just that he was a douche, but we see, or rather we are told (I wish the author had given us some pages devoted to his groveling and slowing winning her back) about how he changed and became a better man. The new improved and completely devoted hero is honestly a decent guy who has remained faithful and stood beside the heroine even when her family and friends have encouraged him to move on with his life. Because of that, I found the heroines attitude very off-putting and found myself frustrated and disliking her and her continued nasty remarks. Cheater or cheating is repeated 27 times, and this is a relatively short book. I get it. In her mind, it's really only been a year and she doesn't remember how he changed and won her back. But OMG I grew SOOOO tired of her throwing the fact he cheated in his face every other page. By the end I wanted him to give her bitchy ass the f@cking divorce, she kept whining about wanting and find himself someone new.
On top of that, we get a side romance calamity between the heroine's sister and one of their friends. An UBER manwhore that apparently wants nothing more out of life than slutting around #lifegoals and is unable to think with anything other than his penis. Seriously the characters in this book collectively had the brain power and moral compasses of a turnip! This is what heroine (remember she was CHEATED on herself) tells her sister to do. Even though she knows he is involved with someone, and he was JUST bragging about the threesome he had like two pages earlier in front of her sister...
“Then give him a reason to see you in a different way.” “What am I supposed to do? Just walk up and kiss him and see what happens?” “That’d be perfect. I was joking. “I’m not doing that.” “Why not? Ace is the kind of guy who would love something like that. It’s spontaneous. It’s sexy.” “He’s seeing someone.” Bree waved it off. “Whatever. She’s not serious. He’s having threesomes with her. She’s just a piece of ass.” “It’s still wrong.” “You’re overthinking it. You want him, go get him.”
Like I said this was an angst filled train wreck of a book yet I kept turning the pages because I just COULD NOT put this thing down. Of course it friggin ended on a cliffy. And of course like a crack whore jonesing for her next fix I will be stalking the author waiting for book two because dammit if I am not invested now.