Review: 3 stars – Worth a few minutes before bedtime.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
Even though this was the fourth book in a series I didn’t notice it much. It was apparent at times that I was missing back story, but the author did a good job of quickly filling us in each time we needed it. I didn’t think I was missing out on anything by not having read the earlier books.While I didn’t love the characters in this book (I’ll get to it) I did like that we were able to read some of Ben’s point of view. It helped to explain some of his actions and what he was thinking. It also helped to make him a huge huge huge jackass.I almost felt bad for Ben at one point because he was just so clueless, but then he started checking out EVERY . SINGLE . WOMAN.  One minute Ben’s upset about Mazie dumping him and literally not five minutes later he’s looking at a hot chick and thinking to himself that “the night isn’t a total waste”. He then takes said chick “home” from a party that Mazie was at. I thought these two were an in love couple? Apparently not because Ben can flirt, pick-up, and leave with a new chick from a party that Mazie was at. And he totally would have sealed the deal with her,  had he had the opportunity. If you know what I mean.Yeah, that sounds like a dude who is really in love, right? Why is it acceptable for men to be complete pigs who are ruled by their dicks in some of these romance books? Do all these female romance writers really look that poorly on the female population?To be quite honest if this hadn’t been an ARC I would have quit reading at 38%. I just didn’t get the book. At 46% I couldn’t figure out why we had now spent half the book with the main couple lusting after other people. I don’t want to read pages of Ben comparing his new love interest and Mazie, especially when the other chick seems to win every time.Somewhere around 60% it does get better because we finally get the main couple together… kind of, I guess. All of sudden Ben decides he does love Mazie again and even though minutes before he was in a dream relationship with this new girl he’s now ready to marry Mazie. Now mind you, there wasn’t even a revelation of how this other girl wasn’t what he wanted. He never thought about the reasons Mazie was really the one for him, he just proposes marriage. I don’t know maybe he hit head on the way over there and suffered a concussion?? It’s the most logical explanation I have.Sorry, The Sexiest Man Alive, while written well just didn’t do it for me. I need more romance in my romance books. I can’t believe someone who had read the earlier books, loved them as a couple, and book boyfriend-ed Ben would ever be okay with reading a book where 60% of it he’s chasing after someone else.