Birthday Girl

1/5 stars

This was worse than I remembered, and I hadn't even read it that long ago. The love triangle is completely nonexistent. Every single character in this goddamn book has zero-character development. Giving this book 2 stars was being generous. Cole was created for the sole purpose of justifying Jordan getting together with Pike. 

There was zero chemistry between Pike & Jordan, & I stand by that. The amount of fits Jordan went through when being in that situation was justified because she is just 19 & he is in his FUCKING 30s so obviously there are going to be arguments because of the levels of maturity involved. (For some reason, I assumed Jordan was older during my first read through. My bad.) So the default dynamic I saw was father-daughter, especially since he was constantly reprimanding her and second-guessing every action she took. So, it weirded me the hell out when, after these situations, he immediately thought of her sexually. Yeah, the author does mention that he likes her personality as well, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT it seems as if the only reason he held back the whole time was because she is or was a kid in his eyes. Still weird as hell. Side characters didn't help at all either. They were just there to push the relationship which is annoying because we already have to deal with trashy MCs. Sex scenes were meh some of them were just straight up weird cough (the loofa scene what was even the reason of including that) but nothing that I would go back and read again.

I am going to stop here because if I continue it'll turning into an elongated rant. I 100% do NOT recommend you reading this book. It'll save you a lot of wasted time.