Review: Sweet and Easy Read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2014
The Boyfriend List by Renee NovelleStandaloneGenre: Contemporary RomanceAge Group: New AdultRelease Date: February 3,2014Print Length: 253 pagesFormat: eARCVia tour hostOverall Rating: 3.5 StarsThe Boyfriend List is a cute and lighthearted romance. To me it almost read like a YA or Mature YA instead of a New Adult, but that’s just me being picky and really beside the point. The point is I liked it for the most part and overall it was a pretty decent story. If you are looking for a sweet and easy read this just might be the book for you.Reagan is sick of choosing all the wrong men; somehow she always gets stuck with the worst possible boyfriends. It’s like they flock to the poor girl. When her latest boyfriend decides to stray and it ends up posted all over face book for everyone to see she decides she has had enough. So with the help of her best friend and roommate Petra they hatch a plan, and The Boyfriend List is born."I’m going to make a list of everything I want in a guy. And unless a guy I’m interested in matches every quality, I’m not going to date him"So Reagan and Petra set out to find the ideal man, the scour their college campus and basically if they see cute guys they sort of just start interviewing them. I can just picture them doing this, I envision them walking around with clipboards and sharpies just checking things off on the list. Cute? Check. Nice smile? Check. Job? No. Ok then lets move on.Ian lives in the same building as the girls and him and Reagan have been close friends for years. Ian is sweet, charming and sexy. In all the time him and Reagan haveBeen friends he has never had a serious relationship and you can tell why as soon as we meet him.  He has a thing for Reagan and even though she won’t admit itShe has a thing for him as well. I liked Ian right away, he is definitely my favorite character in this book .He is always there to help Reagan when she needs anythingand he even makes some halfhearted attempts to help Her with the boyfriend list even though he thinks the whole idea is ridiculous. He knows Reagan wants thePerfect boyfriend someone who fits all the qualities she has on her list but he just wants her to somehow see that it could be him. But Reagan doesn’t think its possiblefor Ian to be with just one girl and doesn’t want to risk ruining their friendship if it doesn’t work out."You like to hook up with girls, but you don’t actually date them. And I need more then that, Ian. I need something that lasts pretty close to forever because that’s the kind of girl I am. If I cant have that, then friendship is the next best thing"I did have a really hard time connecting with Reagan’s character, she was just to immature for me at times. They were in college but sometimes some of the things that happened in the book with her seemed like something you would see from someone in high school rather then a twenty year old. And she was so back and forth with her decisions and it was killing me. I wanted to jump into the book and slap some sense into her. I mean really Reagan? The perfect guy is right in front of you. When will you just stop with your silly little list and realize it? I did however really like Petra a lot , she was sarcastically funny and brought a lot to this book. Will Reagan give in and take a chance on Ian or does he just not have all the qualities she wants in her perfect boyfriend?"And then he was next to her, leaning in casually with that charming smile she’d always thought she’d been immune to alighting his lips, melting her resolve, making her wonder"I do have to say I really just didn’t like the end of this book at all. It is a standalone so it doesn’t have a cliffhanger but it does kind of just leave you hanging. I was really genuinely surprised that it just ended like that. You know when you get to the last page but don’t know it’s the last page? Because you think there has to be more, that there needs to be more? This was one of those books. I was basically just like huh really that’s it? Yeah so that didn’t work for me at all. But it was a cute book and it did have me laughing out loud several times. So like I said if you want a sweet and easy read this just might be the book for you.Reviewed by Stephanie the Book Hooker