So I listened to this on audiobook, and that was a mistake. Not because the voice actor was bad, because she wasn’t. She was fine. Also not because the production quality was poor. It wasn’t. It was, again, fine. But I’ve learned that I just don’t like to listen to an audiobook that is full of graphic sex scenes. I don’t have a problem reading a physical or e-copy with sex scenes, but it feels awkward to have it narrated to me. Maybe I’m the only one who feels that way...oh well.

In any case, I can’t see that I would’ve rated it much higher even if I’d read a print copy of this book. At the end of the day, it was all flash and very little substance. I didn’t feel like these characters had some deep emotional connection. The author tried to throw in a couple of vulnerable moments for them, but mostly it was just them having sexual encounters. Now don’t get me wrong, I love sexy times...but that was pretty much all there was here. And it’s a bummer, because there were glimmers here and there of a good story. I liked the idea of the girls club, but it was never developed enough for me. And Georgie’s sister and friends didn’t have much depth either. It feels like the author is setting up for this to be a series of books about these other ladies, but for this book they were underdeveloped. I kept forgetting which woman was which.

Also, the dialogue was so cringeworthy. They would talk incessantly during sex, during which he kept calling her ‘baby girl’, and it felt icky to me. I don’t have other specific examples because audiobook, but yeah, I found myself rolling my eyes A LOT at this book.

There’s also a meaningless transformation subplot where Georgie starts dressing in clothes from somewhere other than a thrift store and Travis acts like she’s a pornstar or something. His reactions to her are silly.

Then the ending is completely ridiculous and cheesy. The idea that he would magically turn into this guy who wants marriage and kids and all of that just doesn’t ring true considering the awful childhood he supposedly had that he NEVER worked through. It felt very ‘true love cures all’, and I don’t like that.

There are so many other things I could talk about, but I just don’t care enough to go further into it.