Review: no.  just no.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2013
This story had two things going for it:1) It was short.2) It was free.Regarding the last - you get what you pay for.  I found the characters to be pretty much awful all around.  Marissa herself is fairly two-dimenisional, and her family - scratch that, her life in general - is horrible.  Everyone dumps on her because she lacks the proper amount of ambition, her ex-boyfriend blames her for catching him kissing someone else and then not taking him back.  The girl finally gets up the gumption to move and you think, "Hey, this story might be going somewhere!"Alas, she ends up heading home for her father's birthday, which of course her ex will be at with his new love interest.Enter the CREEPIEST "hero" of a romance novel I've seen yet.  He walks into her Dairy Queen and leaves her a massive tip, okay.  Kind of cool, even.  Then when she's on the train, his seat happens to be right next to hers.  Odd, but okay.SPOILERS to follow!Dude writes his phone number in the back of her Sudoku book - awww, sweet.  Then when she calls, he mocks her for being able to hold out and not call him sooner.  wtf?  Then he suggests a hook up, and when she hangs up on him he manages to stalk her and find her room at a B&B.;  Marissa is a complete wuss and should have screamed or called the cops at that point.  After asking to wear her panties, he convinces her that she wants to go out drinking with him.  Yeah.  At the club, when she finally stands up for herself and refuses to be part of a threesome, he convinces her to drink more... the next morning, she wakes up to find he took her panties and put that complete stranger's thong on her.  He's laughing hysterically on the phone because she gave him her panties.Even with all of THAT she allows the full What Not to Wear makeover crew that he sends to come in and, in a very bullying manner, Cinderella her up for the party.  Annnnnnd THAT is where this volume ends.  You don't even get to see the party and maybe her actually stand up for herself.The amount of twisted control freak that this guy displays is terrifying and if Marissa really isn't a dumb as her mother and ex repeatedly insist she is, she'll kick this guy in the nuts, and then to the curb.