The story was fine, but I'm over the whole screwing the boss idea. Can't we have power play without a serious breach of ethics? I guess it adds drama to have the threat of losing your livelihood, but it seems tacky.

Prose could use some serious editing. Lots of sentence structure issues which made it hard to read. I just can't rate a book any higher than "it was okay" if it presents this many issues. I get it: writing a book is hard. That's why we have drafts and helpful editing friends. ( )

This one was okay... I finished it, but kind of lost interest about halfway through ( )

Story was good, easy, interesting, but not challenging. This is the first audio book I've listened to narrated by Romy Nordinger. While she did a fine job in pace, tone, voices for characters, etc, her voice is not a good fit with a 23-year old character. Ms Nordinger's voice is somewhat gravelly in sound and, to my ears, didn't sound like the youthful voice of a 23 year old. I wouldn't turn away a book because of her narrating, but I think this isn't a best-fit scenario. ( )

I really didn't like this series...
So much so that, for this book I pretty much read only every other page. I skimmed so much of it that basically I only read half the book. And, book 2 was so bad I ended up giving up on it about 34% into it - having skim read even that.

I'll start by pointing out the good aspects...
and there were a couple (literally). The writing style was good (well, mostly). It read like a good book, only it wasn't! And it had a fairly complex plot (for this type of book).

Now, on to why I wanted to give it NO stars...
To start, we have the HIGHLY typical cope-out of the author telling us how a character is , then having them behave in a completely contradictory manor. Then telling us this was rare. Well, not from the viewers' (readers') perspective!

I'll give you an example...
this book tells us how UNcommon it is for the heroine to drink. Saying things like, "she never drinks more than a glass or two, and even that infrequently." And yet in the first WEEK or two she's shit faced drunk THREE TIMES!!! So drunk that, on the first occasion she can't recollect how she ended up in bed with the 'enemy'. And on two occasions she can't even remember how she got her drunk ass home.

Just because you TELL us something...
doesn't make us believe it! Just because the author states the character doesn't often drink, doesn't make me think 'oh, this must be unusual for her' when she's wasted off her ass night after partying night. I need to SEE for myself that she's not usually like this. I need prior examples, to have some experiences depicted where she was a responsible adult before throwing me into her alcoholic daze so that I can come to the conclusion myself that she's not a lush or a moron, because quite frankly, I didn't care how many times the author mentioned how rare this party-girl behavior was, from my viewpoint she was CONSTANTLY parting and getting plastered.

Then we have how the book reads like...
you reentered a room you'd just stepped out of only to find the conversation continued while you were gone. Throughout this book I felt like I'd missed parts of the story or the plot! One minute we're at this point, then the next sentence we're somewhere else entirely! I HATED that.

And don't even get me started about...
how often she went on about how fucking hot this guy was. EVERY SINGLE time she looked at him, off she'd go about how gorgeous he was. I get the fucking point! The more I read about it, the less sexy he became to me! By the end of the book I didn't give a shit he was sexy, MOVE ON! I thought I'd vomit if I had to read one more of her looped thoughts, or hear her talk about, how hot the guy was.

And then we have the insta-love...
and how much she cared about this guy (after a week). Why? Who knows, we're only told that she does! She doesn't SHOW, she TELLS (ad nauseam)! There was no interaction depicted! Only some fucking and some drinking and a few moments of conversation! Yet she's in love?

But, the very worst for me was the 'BFF'...
In all the books I've read like this (and I'm embarrassed to say it's a few) this is one of the most disgusting best friends I've read about. A truly reprehensible character. A sulking lush with serious mental issues. And an unforgivably bad influence!! Best friend my ass!!!! And the book goes on and on about how much the girl loves and cares about the heroine, and always has her back... WHAT??? In all of book one, and into book two, she was absolutely NOTHING but trouble and repulsive.


I was going to give the books 2 stars...
after I finished it, simply because it was written well enough that I can see the author has potential, but than I decided I really hated almost every single thing about this book, and 2 stars was just too many! ( )

In love with Jett! But to end on a cliffhanger :-( Off to see when the next one comes out. Can't wait for more! ( )