Review: NO Regrets Reading This Book - [...]
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2013
ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for a fair and honest review. Spoiler-free.  This book does not end with a cliffhanger. This book can be considered a stand-alone but I would highly recommend reading Bad Rep (book# 1).  NO cliffhanger.  I have no regrets reading this one....4.5 - 5 stars!Riley Walker is perfect.Riley Walker has a life plan.Riley Walker gets dumped by her boyfriend.Riley Walker is now a total bitch.After her boyfriend breaks up with her, Riley's perfect world comes to a screeching halt.  Misery loves company and everyone around her is her is feeling the pain.  She is critical, angry and just a beast. Riley goes out one night and decides to let loose. She dials down her bitchy demeanor and puts on some beer goggles.  Riley hooks up with her BFF boyfriend's band mate - Garrett Bellow. By Riley's standards hooking up with the hottie stoner is equivalent to "slumming it". Garrett is a "townie" who lives by her college and seems to have no life plan in place.  Garrett plays guitar is in a popular local band and has job doing construction work.  After a wild night of sex (which she can't really remember) she wakes up and regrets ever being with Garrett."I felt like a miserable failure on all fronts.  I was hung over and ashamed.  Not a good combination when you felt like throwing up all over your shoes."She rejects Garrett over and over again...while fighting her feelings for him. Garrett doesn't have a life plan so she thinks he is a lost cause and not for her. Riley strikes out at Garrett and treats him like total s***...but he keeps coming back for more.  He sees something behind her cold mask of rejection and slowly melts her ice berg sized heart."We've found something in each other than we want.  Hell if I understand why.  Out of all the fish in the sea, I had to hook you.  One giant, snarly toothed piranha ready to bite my fingers off.""My heart isn't strong enough to survive you Riley.  You won't just bend it, you have the power to shatter it to pieces."After being bitch slapped...literally by a few loved ones.  She starts to snap out of her PMS on acid faade.  But will it be too late?This story unravels mostly through Riley's razor sharp tongue. There is angry and then there is Riley Walker.  She's not likeable through much of APR.  While I didn't like her.... I loved the book.  In Bad Rep (book 1) she was a solid friend with just a strong personality - not mean spirited like in APR. Garrett on the other hand...is so likeable (and maybe too nice).  I will say there were times there were times I want to reach in my kindle a smack him for putting up with Riley. Bad Rep fans will be happy that Maysie and Jordon are integrated nicely into APR.This story has the perfect amount of - angst, drama and character chemistry.  I made the mistake of thinking I could skim through Bad Rep before I read APG. Not a chance...I got sucked in all over again.  I would recommend this book and series.  A Perfect Regret is a perfect read and worth the wait.  4.5 - 5 stars!This review appears on [...] [...] Goodreads, Amazon and Twitter.