Review: Wow, this is even worse than the other book I have read by the same author (Spoilers)
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
I did not realize when I started reading this that it was by the same author of a book I just wrote a scathing review of earlier today. Had I known, I might not have bothered with this one.The story starts out being told from one point of view, then changes to another point of view, which is fine when it is done in a way that is not too confusing. So far it hasn't been. Story is essentially about a group of 4 friends from college - two women and two men - who still live & work in close proximity to each other and are the best of friends. From what I can gather, this is all told from the POV of the two women (so far anyway).I already had the feeling that the story line would be ridiculously juvenile but I pressed on anyway. There came a point in the story where one of the young women finds her boyfriend cheating on her and asks her 3 close friends to take her out to get drunk. This seems plausible and it's best, if you plan to nurse your heartbreak that way, to have close friends with you. Or so I always thought. Not so with this author's story, nope. Drunk-off-her face girl is taken home by her friends, and one of the male friends decides to stay with her and help her in her sickness. The girl is seriously fall-down, puke-your-intestines-out smashed, so she needs a friend right then. Apparently instead of really nursing the poor girl in her time of need, the guy decides to have sex with her when she repeatedly throws herself at him. He knows she is completely off her head drunk, has just suffered a heartbreak and so is emotionally unstable and like the 'good friend' he is, he goes ahead and takes advantage of that. The next morning, when she wakes up with him naked in bed and confronts him, his response is basically a "you always knew I wanted more than friendship from you, blah blah...you know how I have always felt about you, blah, blah...and I asked you repeatedly if you were sure, blah blah." No remorse, no apologies for taking advantage of such a good friend while she was in a horrible state, nothing.At this point I closed the book and deleted it from my kindle. In the other book I read by this author, she has one woman working her way sexually through all her close male friends until she settles for the one that makes zero sense for her to be with, and then in this one we have this giant, date-rapey, hot mess. If this is what the author thinks is a good story, I want no part of it.