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First published September 19, 2014
Overall, I didn't like it and mainly it's because of the heroine and her hypocrisy. She purposely dates only assholes and when she's treated like trash, she's surprised and angry at it. The fuck?
The premise of her fucked up outlook on relationship is due to her parent's divorce and her long term boyfriend ditching her. Somehow this translates into infidelity-phobia. So, she's into these hook ups "without strings" to avoid being hurt but then she admits that those hookups never give her satisfaction because she has to imagine "George Clooney" to find release with her present hookup. Also never mind that those assholes treat her like a one dollar whore.
Sierra meets the hero of the story, Cameron, and falls for him. But throughout the story, she never had the guts to call off the random hookups. Quite hypocritical for being a staunch and VOCAL opponent about infidelity but Sierra is pretty lax with her whatever relationship with Cameron.
At one point about 80% of the story, she even goes back to her previous hook up for oral sex while still with Cameron. And when her friend confronts her about that, she didn't see anything wrong with it. I suppose Sierra thinks oral sex (with finger penetration and all that 9 yards) does not equal sex, which means it was no infidelity. Sierra even says (quote from the book), “Royce is a good guy who offered some good advice.” But there's a problem here. She says that after Royce admits that he knows Sierra is in love with another guy and probably in a relationship with him and he still calls Sierra over for one last booty call. Royce is a good guy. Right.
What really irks me is that the heroine never really feels remorse for her hypocritical actions nor any reflection on it. Oh, Sierra feels bad because she had Cameron's face in her mind while Royce, the hookup, fingers her. But then afterwards, Sierra brushes off the "bad feeling" about imagining Cameron and that's the end of that. She even calls Royce a good guy. A guy who calls you over to cheat is a good guy.
Overall, I didn't respect nor like the heroine and the hero (a boring beta doormat). I guess it's not a surprise I did not enjoy this book and the author's take on romance (and especially the lack of reflection on the heroine's slutty and wandering ways while still with Cameron). I didn't get to the end because I dnf'ed when Sierra called Royce a good guy. I'm sure the novel will end up in some trump up HEA but I can hardly root for it nor think it will genuinely last.
I had tried other books by Sandi Lynn and to be honest, I don't think this author's for me because her idea for romance is quite strange.