Review: Fun Read!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.*Birdie is a girl from the 'hood', adopted into a biracial family, her adoptive mother dies leaving the five adopted kids they only family each other have. She works hard so she can pay for school and get her degree. She meets Cody one night at the bar she works at, he is known as the 'body shot king'. He and his rowdy friends end up getting her fired after 'Boner', Cody's BFF gets to touchy and rude. In an attempt to make a things right, Cody gets her job back for her. Birdie meets Scott at her a coffee shop she also works at. They hit it off and go to lunch, leaving him her number with the hopes that he will call.At the bar she keeps seeing Cody with his many girls hanging all over him. He decides he wants her so sets up a way to get her to agree to drinks. She says no, knowing what a player he is. But he is relentless in what he wants, and he wants her. Not a relationship, but to sleep with her and move on. The more she turns him down though, the more he becomes intrigued and wants her. Scott never calls, so she becomes interested in Cody.They start a relationship, he still lets sleazy girls do body shots, they fight, she wont have sex with them, they fight. She knows his past so doesn't want to give it up until he tells her he loves her, but she wont say that in fear he will do it just to get into her pants.Cody wants her to meet his parents. She goes and the mom is warm and welcoming, she meets his sister, who is loud and rude, then his brother who just returned from war, Scott. Scott is his little brother and has been away, the reason for not calling, and you find out that after their lunch he told his mom that he had found the girl he was going to marry. Seeing that's she's happy with Cody, Scott doesn't pursue her.Birdie finally sleeps with Cody, everything is great, then Cody's mom finds out she's not who she thought she was. She becomes cold and distant from Birdie, leaving her feeling awkward and unwelcomed.This becomes the focus of the book. Stephanie, Cody's mom, drives a wedge between them. They fight about that, he's still childish and parting with girls all over him, they fight. He complains that she nags, yet he wont let her talk to other guys with out a fight. Yet even after this double standard is brought up, he keeps at it. With the mom trying to push Birdie out of the picture, she brings in Nicole, his ex. Cody and Nicole have a long history, so they laugh and touch, leaving Birdie feeling insecure.This is when sh!t hits the fan. Cody is very immature in this book. I felt like it was a lot of drama. They had a tumultuous relationship, the thing that kept them together I felt was the sex. Scott wasn't really a factor in this book, but the ending indicated that he would be in the next book. The characters seemed real, in the fact that they were flawed and how they reacted to situations.I liked this book, it was a fun read.