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Title: Bad love
Scholastic Corporation
Item Number: 9780590401623
Number: 1
Product Description: Bad love
Universal Product Code (UPC): 9780590401623
WonderClub Stock Keeping Unit (WSKU): 9780590401623
Rating: 3/5 based on 2 Reviews
Image Location: https://wonderclub.com/images/covers/16/23/9780590401623.jpg
Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)
Width: 0.000 cm (0.00 inches)
Heigh : 0.000 cm (0.00 inches)
Depth: 0.000 cm (0.00 inches)
Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross
Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross
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$99.99 | Digital |
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Jesse Carpenter
reviewed Bad love on April 02, 2019Fuzzy Logic - Erin McCarthy - 2.5 / 5 - Ashley Andrews has started selling sex toys through Pleasure Parties to make some money. When her downstairs neighbor, landlord and her genius baby brother's equally genius best friend, Lucas, mistakenly receives a box of pink dildoes he goes upstairs to investigate. He's been in love with Ashley since he was a teenager but she's never seen him as anything but her brother's pesky friend. But surrounded by all these sex toys and face to face with sexy Ashley, he throws caution to the wind and decides to test some of them out on her. When she seems to return his interest he goes all out seduction. Ashley is conflicted about wanting Lucas, but she thinks she might be able to return his feelings.
So this is a kinda cute little romp through a friends-to-lovers experience...nothing angsty or anything and it's pretty sweet. I liked that the hero fell first (I always do for some reason). I also think I like that the majority of the sex did not involve experiments with all the different sex toys and stayed only between them. The relationship itself is on super fast-forward with Lucas (rather awkwardly) kissing and touching her before he's even judged that she's interested (or asking her permission). Then, he admits his love before they even orgasm and Ashley, who has never felt anything for Lucas before, decides she loves him too. Then he's proposing and she's accepting, which is a bit ridiculous since it's not like they were really friends or anything. They hardly know each other. But that's kind of the typical novella experience.
Call me crazy, but what actually bugged me about this story was how Ashley got treated because she wasn't "intelligent." She calls herself brainless. Lucas responds by telling her she's not brainless. Then goes on to say she's fun, exciting, beautiful and interesting. Umm...nothing there ramp up her confidence in her intelligence there. He says she's not brainless, not that she's not stupid. And aside from interesting, these aren't exactly traits that require much depth or hard work, but even that's up for debate. They're actually pretty superficial compliments, especially from the guy who loves her. Even worse, after her brother is taken to task for always ribbing her for her intelligence, he defends himself by saying that he's proud of her because she's gorgeous and classy. How is this complimentary when you're trying to convince a person that she is more than just a pretty face? He compliments her for being popular, but better would have been to say she's great at connecting with people...because then at least it's about HER instead of other people liking her (for whatever reason...her beauty perhaps?) And for that matter, exactly why did Lucas supposedly love Ashley so much? Other than her sexiness, what did he see in her? I got the impression that even the author couldn't find any worthwhile achievements or character traits in Ashley…other than beauty, sexiness and being fun.
The Cupid Curse - Jen Nicholas - 3 /5 - Val Lewis has been a "man-hater" for too long and is ready to have a man of her own. So she makes a heartfelt plea to Cupid for her true love. Gideon is a cupid, a race of immortal beings led by Eros who help mortals find their true love...actually he's a winger, a cupid in training. But he begs for the chance to help Val and he gets it....except he blows it when he shoots himself in the ass with the arrow. Now he and Val are true loves, but Val isn't ready to forgive Gideon for messing up her chance at love with her soul mate. But a little time together and Val realizes that Gideon is actually the one.
I vacillated between finding this kind of cute and original and finding it silly. I couldn't figure out if Val really believed and accepted the whole cupid thing when she wrote the letter or if she was just funning. Her reaction when Gideon shows up would suggest she didn't really believe it. So I couldn't figure out if the paranormal aspect of this was meant to be serious or tongue-in-cheek. It was definitely cute and unique though...but I couldn't figure why Gideon was a virgin after 134 years when there was nothing to prevent it (and he knew he couldn't get a girl pregnant without Eros's prior approval, so mechanisms were in place for the likelihood). Still, I liked that he was. But he was something of an "expert" virgin and he didn't even tell the heroine until a month later, nor did we get much of his side of the "first experience" so it was almost pointless to make it part of his character. In the end, most of the falling in love happened off page, and pretty quickly. And on top of that this was quite fluffy, without much angst or anything. So I liked it, but it didn't have most of the characteristics of romance that I love, so it didn't go further than like.
Mesmerized - Jordan Summers - 2/5 - Amanda is a hypnotist performer known as the Man Tamer of Manhattan, and also the ice queen, and she's unhappy with the rut her life. Derek Armstrong is a journalist who wants to show New York that Amanda is a fraud and not an ice queen after all - so he pretends to fall into a trance during a show and not wake up from it. In her panic, Amanda takes her home with him to try and figure out how to "wake him." While at her apartment for four days, Derek learns that Amanda isn't who he thought, but he's still focused on the headline. After Amanda and Derek end up having sex he realizes how much she means to him, but when he finds out what he was doing, she's going to be pissed.
And she is. But honestly, after reading about all these characters, I have to think that everybody deserved everything they got (except maybe the HEA). Derek first and foremost is a swine who didn't think of Amanda as a person, but even after getting to know her, continually thought about the headline he'd get from her. Then he has the gall to sleep with her, knowing what he'd intended to do all along...and knowing that she believes he's in a trance and not there of his own free will, which means he's been lying to her even more. Even when she finds out and he's begging forgiveness, he points out that he never lied to her….she simply never asked if he was a reporter, so he never told her. But he did lie about being in a trance (which he conveniently forgets to mention). His pointing this out tells me he didn't really grow or learn or own up to his mistakes. He's still a swine. And Amanda totally brushes off what he did as soon as he says he loves her and never once focuses on the question of what kind of guy would manipulate his way into someone's home so he could get a headline that might ruin her and never tell her? Not someone you want to have a romance with that's for sure. But honestly, Amanda wasn't much better. I was absolutely appalled that she had sex with a man that she honestly believed was in a trance and therefore not acting in his own best interest...or at least in a highly suggestible manner. That would be rape right there...and she barely feels any guilt over it (like one shower's worth of guilt and that's it). On top of that, what kind of hypnotist doesn't realize he's not in a trance? I'd think his behavior would have been a bit suspicious over 4 frickin days. Even Wendy, Amanda's assistant, has some seriously questionable morals and definitely needs to be fired, especially since she later admits that SHE knew that Derek was faking (and the hypnotist didn't?) and she still sent him home with Amanda. That's some friend right there...lucky Derek wasn't a rapist or murderer or someone seeking revenge against the Man Tamer of Manhattan. All of these people frustrated me. I will admit that this story had potential and a nice bit of angst, but it didn't save it from the characters.
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