synopsis:
Every girl likes a bad boy...
And Max’s current boyfriend is as bad as they come. She knows her family would freak if they saw his tattoos and piercings.
So when her parents turn up unannounced Max grabs the most wholesome guy she can to play her boyfriend.
But Cade Winston is so perfect that Max needs him to keep playing the part. And the more they have to fake their relationship, the harder it gets to just pretend…
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this book can be read as a standalone but personally i think it's better to go in with having read 'losing it' first. it just gives off better understanding for this installment of the trilogy.
we follow cade and max who are polar opposites. their lifestyles and their appearances, personalities clash in so many ways. cade is a good guy, perfect actually. max is a rebellious bad girl. i think that gives it away already.
cade is getting over having his heart pretty much broken by his best friend. he's coming to terms of her being with someone else, someone who she clearly loves dearly.
max has a boyfriend whom her parents would never approve of. in fact, none of her boyfriends they have approved of. max puts up a good girl act when she's around her parents, just to please them, not herself. max has crazy red hair, tattoos covering her body, piercings; and she's making a living out of her band by singing in it. none of these which her parents approve of. and then there's her boyfriend mace - tattooed drummer who snorts drugs just to pass time and gets himself knocked out by alcohol.
on a day when max's parents unexpectedly come into the coffee shop she's in with her boyfriend, she has to think fast. she shoves out mace who doesn't want to get involved with meeting her parents anyway, and she notices this clean cut guy at one of the tables. max is confident, so she struts up to him, and guess who we have there? - of course, it's cade. max desperately asks him to play the role of a loving boyfriend to her just for this little scene, and cade does it. in fact, he does it so that max's parents are pretty much head over heels for the man themselves. but this little act of a scene doesn't end there.
this was so good. this is exactly what i wanted and this i got. i love cade and max individually and together. cade is hot and max is hot, and they're aware of that.
i absolutely admire max's confidence (on the most part) and how she deals with things as a strong woman. she's not afraid to put herself out there, to make people bow down to their knees.
it broke my heart a little bit when max thought that cade didn't want a girl like her. of course, i totally get her because she can't see what cade is thinking like we, the readers, can. i think i even love max more than cade in this book, she's such a cool girl crush to have.
overall, my only problem with this was that it was a bit too instalove-y for me. a week and the two already realize that they're in love with each other? oh, come on. though i really liked how cade talked about bliss because he wasn't hung up on her like i've seen guys be in some other books. he got over her and didn't make her the queen. it was great.
ok, the other problem was the cover. okay, cade looks like i pretty much picture him to be. but what the hell has been done to max? she looks nothing like that girl on the cover. she has a poorly photoshopped tattoo on her breast. that's just ridiculous, considering that max has birds on her neck and the tree branches on her stomach and up. and she has piercings all over her ears! and either bright red or light lavender hair. jeez. (but oh man cade is perfect)
but this was so good, honestly. the new adult genre is definitely my guilty pleasure to read.
until next time
x o
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