![]() again, Alexa Riley does not disappoint me with her short smutty books! I know this released a few weeks ago but I was reading other stuff and I couldn't find time to read this but. ![]() I thought Drake was hot and I really liked him.īut reading about a heroine who acted like a hormone-driven 5 year old on acid was just not my jam. But the insta-love here was "insta" even for an AR book. After all, it's par for the Alexa Riley Course. ![]() Within seconds of meeting Drake, Zoey - a virgin who has never before been a bit interested in the male persuasion prior to this moment, of course - suddenly jumps his bones like a randy barnyard animal that broke in Old McDonald's farm bottle of Viagra.Īnd I can totally handle insta-love. I'm not sure if Riley was going for a genius angle? An Asperger's style Rainman chick? Or what? She's filterless and crazy-quirky and I am totally on board. At first I was like, oh I dig this chick. I usually LOVE Alexa Riley - and I still do, homies - but holy fucking moly, this book. ![]() I italicized the "I" up there ^^^ because I know I am TOTALLY in the minority on this one, so take this review with the proverbial grain of sea salt. My personal policy on DNF'ing and rating something is that if I get to 50% and STILL want to to chuck it across the room?Īnd you bet your fucking ass that since I managed to trudge through 51% of this bad boy, I'm gonna call it the way I see it. ![]()
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