You know what? Misogyny isn't cute. Just saying. It's not cute and it's not sexy.

Just a little disclaimer. I am NOT a prude. I like sexy times in books and I don't care about swearing. I have a vocabulary that could make a sailor blush. I feel like I have to put that out there in case anyone thinks this may not be my genre in general.

I am flabbergasted by all of the four and five-star reviews of this book. I just don't get it. I love steamy adult romances, but that isn't what this is. There is a difference between steamy and just graphically blunt. Seriously, I don't need to see the word 'cock' on every other page. It's overkill.

The main character Taylor (get it? Her name is Taylor and the book is called TAILORED for Trouble!!! Cue a bunch of ridiculously stupid puns) is awful. The idea that she should be trusted to humanize rich and powerful CEOs is laughable, considering she is a one-dimensional cliche of a character. We're supposed to believe she is this smart, ambitious, take-no-shit woman but the moment our 'hero' FREAKING KIDNAPS HER she loses any illusion of strength and just starts obsessing about him masturbating and his penis in general. The number of times she gets caught staring at his penis is absolutely ridiculous. By the way, as a billionaire, you would think that Bennett would be able to have his suits altered so his huge bulging penis isn't clearly visible through his pants. JUST SAYING.

She is the worst. I also don't understand how someone who is a self-proclaimed 6 out of 10 (OMG, she has CURVES! How could she possibly compete?! Eye roll.) has every billionaire she meets chasing after her. Maybe it's because she's 'not like other girls'. To be fair, I don't think those words ever came out of her or anyone else's mouth, but it didn't have to. We're supposed to think of her as tough, smart, witty, ambitious. Every other woman is either an objectifying piece of trash or a gold digger. It was actually funny when Taylor got all upset at her friends talking about Bennett as a sex object when that was how Taylor had been thinking of him almost from the moment she met him. There are also a couple lesbians thrown in there for the sole purpose of providing someone for our 'heroine' to be jealous of just to learn that there was no reason for the jealousy.


I don't tend to get embarrassed reading sex/passionate scenes, but these are cringeworthy. The fact that

the condom breaks BOTH times they have sex has me rolling my eyes so hard I just can't even.

Then we have the 'hero'. A guy so charming he is known for the fact that only women he's fucked get to use his first name. Puke.
But it's okay because he loves his mom! Awwwww. Nope. STILL NOT OKAY.
He spends the entire book being a misogynistic pig but we're supposed to think it's hot. Oh, by the way, HE'S SO HOTTTTT. I mean, he would HAVE to be hot. If an average looking, average penised man acted the way he did, we'd call him a controlling stalker. But because he's attractive and well-endowed, it's all okay.
The third time he meets Taylor, he has two hired hands escort her onto his plane where they then take off, against her will. So HOT.
On said flight he gives her a phone and uses it to track her. Ladies, I don't know about you, but I LOVE it when a hot guy demands to know where I am every second of every day. SO HOT!
He screams at people when he doesn't get his way, and is endlessly rude and arrogant. Wow. The hotness is approaching critical levels here.
There is a weak explanation of all his shitty behavior near the end of the book, but for me it didn't justify anything. Also, it's the epitome of one of my least-favorite tropes: Miscommunication that could've been solved if the protagonists had used their words but had to be there for the plot to exist.

Maybe all of this could've been okay if either character had shown any growth whatsoever throughout the course of the book. But they really didn't. Some would argue that Bennett had amazing growth, but he didn't. He was the same at the beginning as at the end, but we knew all of his secrets. That was the only difference. Oh yeah, except that he learned how to have sex without a mirror as part of the equation. SO. HOT.

Other odds and ends:
1. I don't understand why this book wasn't written in first person. With the exception of one scene at the end of the book, it is all told in Taylor's perspective. We're basically in her head already (which is as awful as it sounds) so why tell the story in third-person past tense?

2. It felt like this book was trying to be an updated Pride and Prejudice. I don't know if that was the intent, but in naming one of the protagonists 'Bennett' I feel like it's a pretty good assumption. All I have to say about that is: Nope. Didn't work.

3. The number of times the author (I mean, Taylor...wink, wink) brings up Fifty Shades of Grey is stupid, especially because it's usually to refute the idea that this situation is ANYTHING like FSOG. Sure, it's about a girl and an rich, extremely hot CEO having extremely hot sexy times, but there are no butt plugs! So it's totally different!! I wish I could say I was joking and that there aren't actually any butt-plug references in this book...but I can't. The fact that he is totally controlling and stalkerish is glazed over in the reality that he's SUPER HOT. Sounds like Fifty Shades to me!

It's 2019 people! Can't we please have some hot n' steamy romances without the overly-controlling POS love interests?! Pretty Please?????