Thalia’s Reviews > Aces Up > Status Update

Thank goodness this is over. How does this have so many positive reviews?? How does a book like this get published?? *heavy sigh*

Wow. He's really angry. I've never seen him this angry.

"Wow," I say. "I've never seen you this angry."

Every time I think it can't get worse... now we have a two-for-one.

"What?" I'm sure I've misheard her. "I'm sure I've misheard you."

This shouldn't have been allowed ONCE, this is like going on double digits now!

When the waitress comes to check on us, I order a black-and-white milk shake, and Max looks impressed and then orders the same thing.

"I forgot," he says, "what a great orderer you are. Most girls do not know how to order."

I blush.

WHAT IN THE ALMIGHTY HECK DOES IT MEAN TO BE A GREAT ORDERER???? HOW EXACTLY CAN YOU BE BAD AT ORDERING?

"Whatever," Max says. "It's not really important."

It isn't? "It isn't?

Ah, back to this...

"You're going to believe Leonardo over me?" I ask my dad. "After all he's done to you?" Leonardo really hasn't done that much to my dad except annoy him, but still. Taking Leonardo's word over his own daughter's is completely unacceptable.

EXCEPT YOU'RE LYING ABOUT LITERALLY EVERYTHING.

I used to bug him a lot, but I've come to realize that it's better not to bug him. He doesn't take kindly to bugging. Not that he gets mean or anything. He just ignores me.

Can we talk about how NOT a winner Cole is in the boyfriend department? Not to mention he ALWAYS uses her full name (so we can see the "Card: pun.) Can we dump him and move on? I have a feeling that's not where this book is headed...

Cole is a gentleman. Cole is taking me out to dinner and letting me order whatever I want. Cole is a man. Max Heller is a boy who works at a gas station. Not that there's anything wrong with working at a gas station. To tell the truth, I find it a little bit... sexy... Max in a wife beater, all sweaty, rolling himself out from under some car and standing up, holding lots of... tools.

Please, Shannon, stop.

Actually, besides when it comes to poker stuff, Cole doesn't push at all. He's never asked about my family, or about my friends, or about whether I like my job at the casino. We play poker, we talk about poker, we order room service, and we make out.

*gagging noises*

Upon asking coworker Mackenzie if she would be upset if she were making out with someone, pulled away from him, and he didn't "even try to stop you," Mackenzie's response is, "That wouldn't happen. Guys don't do that."

Then Shannon says, "But what if one of them did?" Mackenzie says, "I would think he was gay."

Apparently men who don't disrespect your boundaries are unheard of in this book.