Review: The world needs more Dare. Right.Now!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
Complimentary copy provided by author in exchange for honest review.I honestly thought I wasn't going to like this book when I started; I thought it was another book about a spoiled rich girl who "thinks" she has it bad and decides to go slumming to see how the other half survive, and boy was I wrong! Reagan's family issues make an episode of "Jerry Springer" look like a walk in the park. We don't get to know much about her siblings Quincy and Pierce, and her mother is a pill-popper AND a pill-pusher. But her father....ooh her father makes you want to spork him in the taint. You know an author has done their job if you want to reach into whatever medium you're reading the story on and pluck out his eyeballs with a dull spoon.Can ya tell I don't think much of her father?Dare is the formulaic bad boy (crap childhood), with his own equally f-ed up parental unit; but at least he was able to do what could to remove his siblings from the toxic environment they were surrounded by. But, he never came off as an egotistical jackass of a bad boy, which I thought refreshing because this could have been the type of story where the rich girl is the one to reform the bad boy and they'll go riding his crotch-rocket off into the sunset. No, instead Dare shared with Reagan his story and what happened as a result, and how he managed to move on to the next phase, while doing what he can to keep his family safe. And just when you think you might get a sweet, HEA.....Bam! Reagan's father really shows his true jackassery nature and that pretty much sets up the ending for this installment of Dare's and Reagan's story.I thought the writing was well done with the telling of this story, there was nothing about this that didn't seem like it couldn't happen in real life, my only wish was that we got to see more about Dare and Reagan falling in love, that part of the book just seemed to skim along without us really getting to see their early relationship develop. I usually don't like to read serial books until all the books are available (cause who really wants to wait in between release dates to get their fix?), but I was so impatient that as soon as I finished this book I immediately 1-clicked "Out of Control". This is a series I definitely recommend (well, at least the first book anyway).