Review: Big disappointment
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
The Virgin’s Guide to Misbehaving, Bluebonnet #4, by Jessica ClareGrade: D“God Damn. Kissing you is like falling into madness, isn’t it?”Elise Markham has spent her life being the extremely shy girl who can hardly hold a conversation with the opposite sex. Elise is desperate to break free of the physical and emotional things in her past that have made it so hard for her to have normal relationships and there’s only one person she wants to help her: Rome Lozada. Rome is everything Elise has ever wanted: handsome, sweet and looks like a bad boy. Elise is shocked when Rome takes her up on her offer but she refuses to let her shyness rob her of this beautiful man.Rome Lozada is determined to finally break free of his hippie-con artist family and make it on his own. When he lands a job at the Wilderness Survival Expeditions he feels like his luck is finally changing, especially when he meets his boss’s sister Elise. Elise is way too good for Rome but there’s no way that he can walk away from what she is offering him. As the two start their adventure together Rome finds himself  falling in love with the sweet, shy woman but old secrets come back to haunt him and destroy his relationship.I was a big fan of the first two books in the Bluebonnet series but the last two have not been my cup of tea. i was very excited for Rome and Elise’s book but it really missed the mark for me. I know that Elise is shy but she was painfully shy to the point that it was awkward to read and my heart broke for her. At the same time she could come off as very annoying because she had no experience with men or relationships. I felt at times that I was in the mind of a thirteen year old girl and not a young woman in her twenties and her actions towards the end of the book are also very childish.I liked Rome at first but after awhile he too got annoying. I hate when any character of a book makes a decision that they think is best for another person without consulting them first. Rome is a good guy but he told way too many lies and sometimes treated Elise like a child. I didn’t understand why he acted  the way he did towards the end and the whole thing just really bothered me. Neither Elise or Rome could just be honest and that along with everything else made this book almost unreadable.Sadly I am done with this series. After two books that were almost painful to read I have no desire to go back and revisit these characters. I really wanted to like this book but it was a giant disappointment for me.