This is the story of “good girl”, Jennifer and the town “bad boy”, Marcus. The problem is that Marcus wasn’t in any way a bad boy. I’m all for male characters who are just good guys. Marcus was a good guy, and I liked his character a lot. But the entire “conflict” here is that Jennifer thinks that Marcus is this bad boy. She’s been warned away from him for years. The only reason we are ever given for his hell raiser reputation is that he has been with more than a few women. But now he’s got a good, stable job. He doesn’t date much. He basically is just a normal dude. So I didn’t really get Jennifer’s internal musings.

Jennifer, the good girl, on the other hand just had zero personality. There was nothing about her that made me want to root for her. I couldn’t even hate her, as she was just so bland that I didn’t care at all.

I also didn’t feel any chemistry between these two. The scenes between them moved so slowly. And, even with this being a novella, I found myself losing interest.

Still, the writing was good and I liked the secondary character of Jennifer’s BFF, Beck enough that I immediately followed this book up by reading her story.