Review: Jodie's 3 Star Review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
You and me are a roller coaster. So buckle up and get ready for one hell of a ride, sweetheart.”That about sums this book up, if you read the first two books in the Bad Rep series you will know that we have met Cole and Vivian already and we know that they are the definition of friends with benefits. This book starts out right with a bang literally it is Cole making out with another girl knowing that Vivian is about to walk in and catch them. These two seriously get off on doing this to each other. Vivian gets mad, Cole pleads his case, Vivian eats it up and next thing you know angry make up sex. Yep, prepare Cole is a douchebag, arrogant, egotistical a**. In fact this is how he explains himself…“I was a slut. I embraced that. I slept with whomever I wanted, whenever I wanted. My d*** spent more time out of my pants then inside them.”Yep, you feel that love. So I have to state right from the start I wasn’t feeling Viv or Cole. I just didn’t like them, he was a douche and she was an attention whore.But I have to talk about the book. So Cole and Vivian have been on the sex with benefits train for two years. But what Vivian doesn’t know is that for the last 6 months Cole has only been with her. Yes, he kisses women but that’s only to get a rise out of Vivian and get angry, hate sex. You will learn quick this is honestly how these two work. Vivian has only ever been with Cole, but she is starting to realize she is stupid and that she looks like a groupie slut. She has a sort of revelation where she realizes Cole doesn’t really know anything about her except maybe what size bra she wears. And that brings her to decide maybe they need to cut it off but…“Cole was like a drug that I couldn’t stay away from. And no matter how many times he upset me. No matter how much he made me hate and despise him, the moment he touched me, it became dangerously easy to lost good sense.”The thing with this book, Cole talks a good game of sex but there really isn’t much of it that happens. And by talks a good game I mean he makes you want to kick him in the balls and watch him crumble. I really never fell in love with these two until the end, the end I was all, oh there is the love story. I guess the reality of it is I don’t understand the sex without attachment relationship. How do you over a period of two years not learn someone’s middle name, their favorite food, what they hate, what they love. I just couldn’t grasp it. So when he comes to his relationship revelation I was all really, how is this going to work. BUT IT DID, I think. You see this is where I had another problem because he goes to win Vivian back and they make decisions. Then BAM it is 6 months later and we are in an epilogue seeing them fine but still themselves. ROLLERCOASTER RIDE!!“You seriously belong together. There’s no one out there that will ever put up with either of you for very long.”“Hey!” I whined, not liking the sound of that at all.“It’s the truth! Look at yourself. Look at how you are together. You’re both overdramatic, narcissistic, attention seeking fools.” “You’re both stubborn and unyielding. And 100% made for each other.”And that’s the truth with as much as I was frustrated with this story, these two were written perfectly for each other. Added Bonus with this book we do get to see the other characters from the previous books that we have come to know and love. We find out a secret about Mitch and Grace and I have to warn I am left wanting their book. There is a lot of build up in this story surrounding these two that I can’t wait to get the full story.“I was addicted. I couldn’t get enough.”DAMN IT I think in my previous life I must have been a rockstar groupie because like that says I am addicted to these damn books.