Review: Rating: Well/House; I am going to burn in hell for this one!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 18, 2013
This and more reviews at The Book Bar.coOnly one chapter in, I thought to myself, "I can't! This is just blatant porn for the sake of selling a book." I told Jen that I couldn't go on. This is just not my genre. Your Favorite Girl's blurb doesn't address the craziness that grabs you by your guilty conscious and has it's way with you. BUT... AND THIS IS MY BIG BUT... the story is so crazy, it's captivating. The writing is so flipping detailed you are there, and some times you don't want to be there.I saw that even through the buzz of the Libido Drug.  The look on his face made me feel like a little girl alone at night, her eyes adjusting to the dark and too afraid to look directly at the figure taking shape in the corner.Sweeney, Steph (2013-05-13). Your Favorite Girl (YFG Series) (p. 61). Kindle Edition.Melissa, the main character and self-proclaimed heroine, starts off very differently. Bi-sexual, hyper-sexual and very 'ok' with screwing people over, both figuratively and literally, wants to give her cheating, millionaire husband payback. She learns of a company, Your Favorite Girl, which creates (from genetic goo) sexually perfect women. The company foresees the client's addiction to the creation, ultimately draining their bank accounts to maintain the sexual dependency."What did you do when you found them?" she asked."I joined in," I said. Kate's eyes flashed with surprise.  She must have thought me prudish.  Then again, compared to her who wasn't?Sweeney, Steph (2013-05-13). Your Favorite Girl (YFG Series) (p. 14). Kindle Edition.Melissa's introduction, and the majority of all the characters, are introduced with this blatancy. It was like we couldn't move forward in the story until we knew how sexually depraved the character was. And this is where I think I may burn in hell... the story started to sound likeBrave New Worldby Aldous Huxley. A very broad jump, but still. A manipulative company that feeds the horny needs of society, while reducing them to shells that can later be disposed of."You're right," I said, straining to force out the words.  "I guess I'm just a little creeped out.  Level A was the worst.""Stinks, doesn't it?""Yes!  What is that smell?""The incinerator.""Why do they have an incinerator?""To burn the bodies," she said.Sweeney, Steph (2013-05-13). Your Favorite Girl (YFG Series) (p. 123). Kindle Edition.Melissa's world starts to fall apart and it's up to her to rescue herself and those that are being taken advantage of by "Your Favorite Girl". Of course it doesn't hurt to have a handsome sidekick that shares her beliefs. Melissa's edge never leaves but it does smooth a little. She lets down her cover of being sex-crazed and her personality becomes a little easier to swallow (ha, I crack myself up)."You're amazing," I said."Thank you.""I don't have any talent.""I'm sure that's not true.  You just have to find something you love and commit to it.""That's always been my problem.""Committing?""Finding love." She turned and pecked me on the cheek with a kiss, then whipped her head back around quickly, smiling."Nice," someone said.Without looking back, I shot a middle finger in the air, arousing laughter."If you can love yourself, it spreads fast," Flora said."That's easier said than done." She hit the last note in her song and in her hiatus wrapped her arms around my waist."You'll figure it out," she whispered.  "I promise."Sweeney, Steph (2013-05-13). Your Favorite Girl (YFG Series) (pp. 165-166). . Kindle Edition.Holy (excrement)! I had to finish (ha!). Power through the uncomfortable parts to get to the lesson, the story unraveling beneath it all. I believe, deep down, that this book could have been Top Shelf for me if the gratuitous sex was implied rather then descriptive. HOWEVER, I think Sweeney knows this. She knows that 'sex sells' and she has a story to tell. Good Luck Steph. I can't wait to keep reading what happens to Melissa, the better brother and her Favorite Girl.