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Bad Girl Love
“A good girl is someone who hasn’t encountered the perfect temptation.” Ladylike heiress Audrey Weathersby is careful to never rock her family’s boats. They don’t even know about her ex-girlfriends or her fake IDs. But it’s that fake ID that leads her to the hottest club in the city. While her friends tear up the dancefloor, however, Audrey meets the foil to her suppressed desires and curiosity. Dylan. The resident bad girl with an affinity for good girls like Audrey. What begins as a torrid fling soon transforms into something that opens Audrey’s eyes to the life she’s always wanted. The longer she’s with Dylan, the more she realizes the sources of her suffocation. A toxic family. Airheaded friends. Caring for nothing but the trappings of wealth. “A bad girl is someone who refuses to accept the status quo.” Dylan has dated her fair share of heiresses, but Audrey is the first one to make her believe in a chance at love. Yet it’s not easy to give over to someone like Audrey. She represents everything Dylan has spent her whole life rejecting, for she knows all too well what it’s like to be forced into the good girl role. And her past is constantly threatening to ruin everything she’s built for herself since her darkest days. “Good girls don’t go bad. They save themselves.” The fatalistic love that haunts both Dylan and Audrey will last the summer. After that? Someone will have to give up the only life they’ve ever known. Easier said than done. Please note that this book contains examples of transphobia and growing up in an abusive cult.
494 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 18, 2018
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February 2, 2019dnf @ 13%
Call me irrational but I hate romances where one character digs on the other's fashion choices. Dylan was incredibly annoying because she did just that. The way she spoke about Aubrey isn't something I want to see from a love interest.
Also, we're apparently meant to believe she has a magical pussy where she's slept with many girls in relationships with men, multiple married. We're either on the side of cheating bisexual or she's somehow so hot she's slept with a lot of straight girls. Not my favourite trope.
She also didn't come across as ~bad~ in any way. She's literally only described as being butch. I don't know, I'm always skeptical of books where one's rich and this fell into my peeves with books like that.
This was going to be a long book too, and I didn't want to dedicate so much time to it if I've only been annoyed with Dylan.
Call me irrational but I hate romances where one character digs on the other's fashion choices. Dylan was incredibly annoying because she did just that. The way she spoke about Aubrey isn't something I want to see from a love interest.
Also, we're apparently meant to believe she has a magical pussy where she's slept with many girls in relationships with men, multiple married. We're either on the side of cheating bisexual or she's somehow so hot she's slept with a lot of straight girls. Not my favourite trope.
She also didn't come across as ~bad~ in any way. She's literally only described as being butch. I don't know, I'm always skeptical of books where one's rich and this fell into my peeves with books like that.
This was going to be a long book too, and I didn't want to dedicate so much time to it if I've only been annoyed with Dylan.
January 27, 2019
DNF at 20%.
I really tried but I hated the bad girl character, she's bitter and condescending even when she is supposedly being appreciative of her love interest, and treats women like one of those toxic hypermasculinity men, i.e. she's cocky, egotistical, entitled, and patronizing, and she objectifies women sexually, even as she thinks herself superior. And worst of all, it is implied that she treats those women that way because they are feminine ("princesses") and she's butch.
(I don't dislike butch lesbian characters for their presentation, but I have come to realize that what really puts me off in works of fiction with a butch/femme dynamic is entirely that the butch character is written with all those problems of toxic masculinity and disrespect towards women and toward their love interest specifically.)
The "princess" character looks like a device to insult women as she keeps shaming herself for "being a slut", and wanting to be "a bad girl" but not having the guts to do anything "naughty", which is then used as ammunition by the bad girl character to mock her and be condescending, which the book seems to pass off as flirtation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
I really tried but I hated the bad girl character, she's bitter and condescending even when she is supposedly being appreciative of her love interest, and treats women like one of those toxic hypermasculinity men, i.e. she's cocky, egotistical, entitled, and patronizing, and she objectifies women sexually, even as she thinks herself superior. And worst of all, it is implied that she treats those women that way because they are feminine ("princesses") and she's butch.
(I don't dislike butch lesbian characters for their presentation, but I have come to realize that what really puts me off in works of fiction with a butch/femme dynamic is entirely that the butch character is written with all those problems of toxic masculinity and disrespect towards women and toward their love interest specifically.)
The "princess" character looks like a device to insult women as she keeps shaming herself for "being a slut", and wanting to be "a bad girl" but not having the guts to do anything "naughty", which is then used as ammunition by the bad girl character to mock her and be condescending, which the book seems to pass off as flirtation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
November 12, 2018
3.5 stars, this was a good read. Not their best collaboration but certainly not their worst. The main characters are Dylan &audrey. This book follows the trope of butch/femme hookup. There are spoiled trust funds, transphobia, religious cults and romance. Free on KU
June 12, 2019
This is a shortened version of my audiobook review.
Audrey is a cutesy, well-mannered rich girl, the “princess”. She knows she’s a lesbian, but she can’t find a way to come out to her strict, conservative, influential parents. Dylan rejects everything Audrey and her family represent because of her own history. She picks Audrey up in a club for a hot one night stand that turns into a hot summer affair…
I found both women very likable. Audrey is self-reflected and not at all the ditz you might expect. She knows who she is and what she wants. It’s just very difficult for her to get that life for herself. Dylan is snarky but once we find out more about her background, it’s very understandable why she is the way she is.
This is an extremely sexy audiobook with a great storyline of forbidden love.
Audrey is a cutesy, well-mannered rich girl, the “princess”. She knows she’s a lesbian, but she can’t find a way to come out to her strict, conservative, influential parents. Dylan rejects everything Audrey and her family represent because of her own history. She picks Audrey up in a club for a hot one night stand that turns into a hot summer affair…
I found both women very likable. Audrey is self-reflected and not at all the ditz you might expect. She knows who she is and what she wants. It’s just very difficult for her to get that life for herself. Dylan is snarky but once we find out more about her background, it’s very understandable why she is the way she is.
This is an extremely sexy audiobook with a great storyline of forbidden love.
November 15, 2018
Audrey is a 20-year old heiress, still beholden to her controlling mother who expects her to marry well and continue the family line. But in actuality she's a lesbian with a penchant for bad girls. She meets Dylan in a bar, and after a quick hook-up, she runs away. But the two meet again and begin dating. Dylan has her own secrets but she's not going to say much because she's certain Audrey will go back to college in September and forget all about her. This is just a fling, right?
Not really, since it's a romance novel.
I've read almost all of the Billings/Dane lesbian books and I have to admit that this one just doesn't rise to the level of some of the earlier ones. It's a very slow start and the characters' voices (especially Dylan's in the first third) are just annoying. I know the characters have to have arcs, and these do, but getting through the first section of the book took more stamina than it should.
There are a few interesting plot points, and some fun reappearances of characters, like Eva Warren, from earlier books. But the book is way too long for what it is. I'm hoping Billings/Dane get back on their game.
Not really, since it's a romance novel.
I've read almost all of the Billings/Dane lesbian books and I have to admit that this one just doesn't rise to the level of some of the earlier ones. It's a very slow start and the characters' voices (especially Dylan's in the first third) are just annoying. I know the characters have to have arcs, and these do, but getting through the first section of the book took more stamina than it should.
There are a few interesting plot points, and some fun reappearances of characters, like Eva Warren, from earlier books. But the book is way too long for what it is. I'm hoping Billings/Dane get back on their game.
May 26, 2020
Great story
I love the way Dylan and Audrey meet in that typically bad girl way but they learn they were more alike than they knew.
I love the way Dylan and Audrey meet in that typically bad girl way but they learn they were more alike than they knew.
May 19, 2020
Both characters were too young, unfinished, incomplete in this story. Could have been much better.
dnf
June 28, 2019DNF @ 21%
Something about this rubbed me the wrong way. No characters are likeable. I got the audio version as a no-strings-attached Audiobook trial, and all it did was a) ruin it for me and b) make its flaws stand out even more. The audio reads like a cheap, erotic romance directed by Jenny Schecter.
It feels very much as if it were written by an inexperienced baby gay writing their first lesbian fic, what with all the hey-look-at-me attitude every single scene. As if that's not enough, Dylan is a sex goddess whose only actual bad trait is that she's a womanizer. Both characters have this all-that attitude about them, and I just can't relate to any of that.
I wanted to love this, but I cannot.
Something about this rubbed me the wrong way. No characters are likeable. I got the audio version as a no-strings-attached Audiobook trial, and all it did was a) ruin it for me and b) make its flaws stand out even more. The audio reads like a cheap, erotic romance directed by Jenny Schecter.
It feels very much as if it were written by an inexperienced baby gay writing their first lesbian fic, what with all the hey-look-at-me attitude every single scene. As if that's not enough, Dylan is a sex goddess whose only actual bad trait is that she's a womanizer. Both characters have this all-that attitude about them, and I just can't relate to any of that.
I wanted to love this, but I cannot.
May 30, 2021
Loved It But... It Clearly Could've Been A 5
It really is a good story. It has an amazing story line but I feel like it left us on a cliffhanger. I would have rated it a five star story if the end had been a little bit more conclusive instead of leaving it to my imagination in this great love story. And that's why I'm giving it a 4.5⭐ rating. I can honestly say this was another great piece of literature from Cynthia Dane and Hildred Billings. If you are a fan of these authors, you need to check this book out. And I hope and wish there will be a sequel to this book just like Eva and Nadia's stories.
It really is a good story. It has an amazing story line but I feel like it left us on a cliffhanger. I would have rated it a five star story if the end had been a little bit more conclusive instead of leaving it to my imagination in this great love story. And that's why I'm giving it a 4.5⭐ rating. I can honestly say this was another great piece of literature from Cynthia Dane and Hildred Billings. If you are a fan of these authors, you need to check this book out. And I hope and wish there will be a sequel to this book just like Eva and Nadia's stories.
January 5, 2019
Two opposites being chased by their own individual parental demon.
Two ladies from different parts of town meet up and discover they have something in common. Two sets of parents blinded , one by a misguided religious person and the other blinded by what would people say. Both sets of parents try to manipulate their daughters and forcing them to leave everything behind and to escape. Enjoy! I did.
Two ladies from different parts of town meet up and discover they have something in common. Two sets of parents blinded , one by a misguided religious person and the other blinded by what would people say. Both sets of parents try to manipulate their daughters and forcing them to leave everything behind and to escape. Enjoy! I did.
March 1, 2019
Audrey and Dylan’s story.
This story is full of plot surprises. I liked that it’s not a run of the mill lesfic story. Audrey, a 20 year old woman from wealth, has kept her sexuality from her family, especially her pretentious Mother. Audrey goes along to get along with her families place in society. While home on summer break, she meets a motorcyclist butch women who brings out her more adventurous carnal desires and helps her come into her own.
This story is full of plot surprises. I liked that it’s not a run of the mill lesfic story. Audrey, a 20 year old woman from wealth, has kept her sexuality from her family, especially her pretentious Mother. Audrey goes along to get along with her families place in society. While home on summer break, she meets a motorcyclist butch women who brings out her more adventurous carnal desires and helps her come into her own.
April 27, 2020
This was a very long read but enjoyable. It did have a HEA, but it wasn't mushy or cheesy.
I have a new butch to fantasize about, Dylan and her Harley... Yum.
This story dealt with so many things, including religion, transgender, transphobia, homophobia, coming out, and that was just the tip of the iceberg.
Great read, highly recommend!
I have a new butch to fantasize about, Dylan and her Harley... Yum.
This story dealt with so many things, including religion, transgender, transphobia, homophobia, coming out, and that was just the tip of the iceberg.
Great read, highly recommend!
September 19, 2021
Enough to make an Ace wonder if she's Ace
I've never been a big reader of romance books in the past. That said it's no longer true at least not for f/f ones. Eventhough I'm old enough to be the grandmother of Dylan and Audrey I found this book a fun and very sexy, definitely not PG, read that I totally enjoyed.
I've never been a big reader of romance books in the past. That said it's no longer true at least not for f/f ones. Eventhough I'm old enough to be the grandmother of Dylan and Audrey I found this book a fun and very sexy, definitely not PG, read that I totally enjoyed.
November 10, 2018
Twists
Good story! Mostly likeable characters. I really liked the backstory you discover as you get further into the book. Some twists and turns I wasn't expecting. Definitely kept me intrigued. I recommend!
Good story! Mostly likeable characters. I really liked the backstory you discover as you get further into the book. Some twists and turns I wasn't expecting. Definitely kept me intrigued. I recommend!
December 18, 2018
Choices
You ever thought your choice was not your own. Read the story of Dylan and Audrey. Discover their unity and their struggles. Read how the choices they made turned into a journey of self discovery. Think happy thoughts....
You ever thought your choice was not your own. Read the story of Dylan and Audrey. Discover their unity and their struggles. Read how the choices they made turned into a journey of self discovery. Think happy thoughts....
October 19, 2020
Enjoyable!
Although this is a well written book, I had to deduct one star due to numerous errors that editing should have caught. Other than that, this was an enjoyable book that I would recommend for your must read list.
Although this is a well written book, I had to deduct one star due to numerous errors that editing should have caught. Other than that, this was an enjoyable book that I would recommend for your must read list.
August 22, 2024
A story with huge potential but unfullfilled. Too much sex scenes in contracts to relationship development. The character of Audrey was very nicely written but Dylan's leaves much to be desired.
Overall didn't warm the my heart. 13h of audiobook is a lot for a book with no angst.
Overall didn't warm the my heart. 13h of audiobook is a lot for a book with no angst.
December 19, 2018
Good girl falls for bad girl tale darkens as the story progresses and it becomes clear that both are victims of domestic abuse to lesser and greater degrees.
January 24, 2019
surprisingly not a page turner.
I normally love their books but this one didn't keep my attention. I only made it 60% of the way through.
I normally love their books but this one didn't keep my attention. I only made it 60% of the way through.
March 27, 2019
Loved it! Aside from it being too short.
May 29, 2019
Great book
I wasn't to sure I was going to like this book when I first started reading it but after u get thru the 1st chapter then it really gets good.
I wasn't to sure I was going to like this book when I first started reading it but after u get thru the 1st chapter then it really gets good.
July 6, 2019
🌈HEA🌈
What I like most about reading sapphic novels is nearly everyone ends with a HAPPY ENDING !😍
This story was consistent with all the other books I've read from these writer's .
What I like most about reading sapphic novels is nearly everyone ends with a HAPPY ENDING !😍
This story was consistent with all the other books I've read from these writer's .
July 28, 2019
Would love to read the rest of there story
November 29, 2020
Great love story!
February 6, 2020
Money isn't everything… often its nothing
Its unique & captivating storyline, spectacular in its complexity, fluidity & intensity creates a very compelling & entertaining book. With a nice flowing effortless progression, engaging narrative incorporating such formidably vulnerable & passionately flawed characters made it an easy read.
Continuing with a good, entertaining story with interesting characters & hot sex scenes extremely well written.
Wonderfully written, beautifully developed, powerfully portrayed, transparently honest, thoroughly enjoyed.
Its unique & captivating storyline, spectacular in its complexity, fluidity & intensity creates a very compelling & entertaining book. With a nice flowing effortless progression, engaging narrative incorporating such formidably vulnerable & passionately flawed characters made it an easy read.
Continuing with a good, entertaining story with interesting characters & hot sex scenes extremely well written.
Wonderfully written, beautifully developed, powerfully portrayed, transparently honest, thoroughly enjoyed.
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November 16, 2023dear god almighty why do i keep reading stuff like this
November 28, 2025
Good
Good story and characters a page turner with plenty of twists and turns . Enjoyed the accompanying audiobook. Recommended. .
Good story and characters a page turner with plenty of twists and turns . Enjoyed the accompanying audiobook. Recommended. .
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