Book: Not
Okay, Cupid
Author: Heidi
R. Kling
Publisher:
Entangled: Crush
Genre:
Romance, Teens & YA
Due Out: January 11, 2016
Blurb via Goodreads:
Her wicked revenge, or his wicked heart...
Hazel McCallister loves her life. Perfect grades. Perfect best friend. Perfect boyfriend. Until her perfect boyfriend cheats on her with her perfect best friend. Now Hazel’s in free fall—until her best friend’s brother, Felix, gives her the perfect idea. Reclaim her power by taking revenge on her cheating ex.
Felix James loves his life. Casual relationships. Loads of surfing. He’s as drama-free as they come. But he can’t stand by when his sister steals her best friend’s boyfriend, and the dude insists it was Hazel’s fault. So Felix vows to help turn Hazel into a girl her ex can’t resist—so then she can break his heart.
With an alliance in place, Hazel’s revenge is all but assured. But with each piece of payback, she feels a stronger attraction to Felix, even though revenge will turn her into a girl Felix could never be with. And soon Hazel has to make an impossible choice: revenge...or Felix, the boy who’s stolen her heart.
Hazel McCallister loves her life. Perfect grades. Perfect best friend. Perfect boyfriend. Until her perfect boyfriend cheats on her with her perfect best friend. Now Hazel’s in free fall—until her best friend’s brother, Felix, gives her the perfect idea. Reclaim her power by taking revenge on her cheating ex.
Felix James loves his life. Casual relationships. Loads of surfing. He’s as drama-free as they come. But he can’t stand by when his sister steals her best friend’s boyfriend, and the dude insists it was Hazel’s fault. So Felix vows to help turn Hazel into a girl her ex can’t resist—so then she can break his heart.
With an alliance in place, Hazel’s revenge is all but assured. But with each piece of payback, she feels a stronger attraction to Felix, even though revenge will turn her into a girl Felix could never be with. And soon Hazel has to make an impossible choice: revenge...or Felix, the boy who’s stolen her heart.
My Review:
Fluffy. Frothy. Shallow. Light.
The story is not unusual. Best friend cheats with the perfect boyfriend. Cue devastation, tears, frustration and
plans for revenge. But as with
every plot there is always a way to set it apart from others. This one however, goes with the sea of
sameness. In other words,
unimpressive.
Hazel and Felix are very different in that she’s a
Type A girl while he is known as the La Playa, as in
sleeping-around-with-commitment-issues player. Yet, written with the two different points of view, they are
practically the same person. Sure
Hazel is uptight as Felix is loose, but at the core of it all they are the
same. Which is pretty confusing.
There were many references to 80s movies and current
pop culture that makes it so NOW, but it still didn’t distract me from the fact
that it’s so long drawn out with the same thoughts, insecurities and questions
going over and over and over again, sometimes taking up several pages. Imagine one thought stretching to seven
freaking pages!
Nope…. Not a happy reader. I had to flip through many “internal struggles” of the main
protagonists just so I can still have the mental energy to finish the
book. It was like going through a
loop with no end in sight. The
cuteness of the characters ended for me after the first three chapters, it was
just downhill after that.
Much as I like reading light romances and Young Adult
fiction, this one just doesn’t cut it.
I’m definitely skipping a reread.
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