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ipsita's review against another edition
Absolutely enjoyed reading this book. It was fun and sexy and such a light-hearted book with Friends to enemies to lovers story and with a really good sense of humor that had me laughing and smiling like a maniac in most of scenes and most of all I really loved their relationship and all those sweet past moments too. I always love and enjoy Rachel's writings and her stories so much. Can't wait to read more of her books.
beckyrendon's review against another edition
4.0
I will be one hundred percent honest the title made me twitch. The blurb was intriguing but my disgust for that word made me hesitant. In the end my love for RVD made me do it and boy am I glad.
Society, and well me too, have a huge disdain for the word, the act, and the connotation. But to play devil's advocate...why?
Clearly some people don't or there wouldn't be any cheaters right?
I absolutely loved Cheater. Me, the girl who cringed in disgust at the title, I loved it. I, the serial monogamist with previous foray into naughty "two for Tuesdays", loved this book.
Welcome to the story of how a man broke a vow. How it broke him and those around him. See how a Cheater is made...
I love Avery. Her fire, her personality, and her down right love of food spirit animals- all these things make her special. She really is. So much so that the Cheater...is cheating on...wait, I'm not going to spill the beans.
Just know this Avery has a problem, it's called loose tongue syndrome. When she's nervous, random, awful things fly out of her mouth. This entire book is her fault- Lucas Thorn
A fun and wild story about family, love, and the wrong path!
Reviewed for New Chicks on the Blog
Society, and well me too, have a huge disdain for the word, the act, and the connotation. But to play devil's advocate...why?
Clearly some people don't or there wouldn't be any cheaters right?
I absolutely loved Cheater. Me, the girl who cringed in disgust at the title, I loved it. I, the serial monogamist with previous foray into naughty "two for Tuesdays", loved this book.
Welcome to the story of how a man broke a vow. How it broke him and those around him. See how a Cheater is made...
I love Avery. Her fire, her personality, and her down right love of food spirit animals- all these things make her special. She really is. So much so that the Cheater...is cheating on...wait, I'm not going to spill the beans.
Just know this Avery has a problem, it's called loose tongue syndrome. When she's nervous, random, awful things fly out of her mouth. This entire book is her fault- Lucas Thorn
A fun and wild story about family, love, and the wrong path!
Reviewed for New Chicks on the Blog
caseroo7's review against another edition
2.0
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Let me start by saying this is a review I never wanted to have to write. I have been a huge fan of Rachel Van Dyken's for a very long time, and for the most part I love her books. But occasionally she writes some that just don't work for me, and unfortunately Cheater was one that didn't. I still love her and am a huge fan, this just wasn't the book for me.
On the night before his wedding Lucas Thorn was caught in an incident that changed his life and reputation forever. Branded a cheater after being caught in another woman's bed, Lucas decided to own his new reputation. Now he has a different girl for every day of the week (except Sundays of course!) and he doesn't do any kind of commitment. But when Avery Black goes to work for him, he finds himself wanting more. Avery hasn't been able to forgive Lucas though since he betrayed her family and ruined everything, but she quickly learns that she just might want more than revenge when it comes to Lucas.
I have to admit that a huge part of my issue here were the characters. They were immature and over the top, something that I have had problems with from RVD before. Sometimes her humor just doesn't click with me and gets a bit too much, and that was definitely the case here. While there were a few things I found funny, for the most part it just felt so forced and didn't do anything for me. Lucas also continued to act as though nothing had changed and I wasn't okay with that when there were feelings being developed. I understand his reputation was the main point of the book, but he continued to have all these girls that he was with right in front of Avery. Once feelings start to develop or return, that is the kind of thing that ruins a book for me...especially considering that she worked for him and she had to manage his "other" calendar. Because of all that it just made it hard to really believe in any kind of connection between these characters.
Besides the character issues, I felt like the story itself was just a bit too over the top and unbelievable as well. Like the humor, there were so many things that just didn't sit right for me and I found it hard to actually believe that they were possible. Lucas was engaged to his high school sweetheart, Kayla who also happened to be Avery's sister, and the night before he was to marry her he was found drunk in bed with their other sister Brooke all the while he hadn't actually loved Kayla but was in love with Avery...it just didn't work. I thought maybe I could find something that would change my mind about these two and their relationship as I read, but honestly I just didn't see it and couldn't get past all the issues I had with the story. For me, Cheater was too contrived and immature for me to ever get into and unfortunately I was disappointed with this one. It won't be the last I read from Rachel Van Dyken though as I do love a lot of her stories. If it sounds like one you might like, give it a go but be prepared for the over the top and immature characters and humor.
**ARC Provided by Publisher**
Let me start by saying this is a review I never wanted to have to write. I have been a huge fan of Rachel Van Dyken's for a very long time, and for the most part I love her books. But occasionally she writes some that just don't work for me, and unfortunately Cheater was one that didn't. I still love her and am a huge fan, this just wasn't the book for me.
On the night before his wedding Lucas Thorn was caught in an incident that changed his life and reputation forever. Branded a cheater after being caught in another woman's bed, Lucas decided to own his new reputation. Now he has a different girl for every day of the week (except Sundays of course!) and he doesn't do any kind of commitment. But when Avery Black goes to work for him, he finds himself wanting more. Avery hasn't been able to forgive Lucas though since he betrayed her family and ruined everything, but she quickly learns that she just might want more than revenge when it comes to Lucas.
I have to admit that a huge part of my issue here were the characters. They were immature and over the top, something that I have had problems with from RVD before. Sometimes her humor just doesn't click with me and gets a bit too much, and that was definitely the case here. While there were a few things I found funny, for the most part it just felt so forced and didn't do anything for me. Lucas also continued to act as though nothing had changed and I wasn't okay with that when there were feelings being developed. I understand his reputation was the main point of the book, but he continued to have all these girls that he was with right in front of Avery. Once feelings start to develop or return, that is the kind of thing that ruins a book for me...especially considering that she worked for him and she had to manage his "other" calendar. Because of all that it just made it hard to really believe in any kind of connection between these characters.
Besides the character issues, I felt like the story itself was just a bit too over the top and unbelievable as well. Like the humor, there were so many things that just didn't sit right for me and I found it hard to actually believe that they were possible. Lucas was engaged to his high school sweetheart, Kayla who also happened to be Avery's sister, and the night before he was to marry her he was found drunk in bed with their other sister Brooke all the while he hadn't actually loved Kayla but was in love with Avery...it just didn't work. I thought maybe I could find something that would change my mind about these two and their relationship as I read, but honestly I just didn't see it and couldn't get past all the issues I had with the story. For me, Cheater was too contrived and immature for me to ever get into and unfortunately I was disappointed with this one. It won't be the last I read from Rachel Van Dyken though as I do love a lot of her stories. If it sounds like one you might like, give it a go but be prepared for the over the top and immature characters and humor.
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ameserole's review against another edition
4.0
If a man ever makes me swear anything on food, I will marry him.
Cheater was one of those books that annoyed me in the beginning, became so freaking funny, and then made me fall in love with the two main characters. Lucas and Avery were a match made in heaven.. well, after all the shit sort of hit the fan.
Okay, so they sort of grew up together but he was dating one of her older sisters, Kayla. They ended up being engaged and then the day before the wedding.. well, he sleeps with her other older sister, Brooke. Meanwhile, he's always had this deep dark crush on Avery. Unfortunately, she was barely 18 at the time and she also had this massive crush on him.
Fate through them together, because she ends up interning at his job. Of course, they end up getting together. It starts off being fake.. but it eventually becomes real along the way. Their fights were adorable and I just loved Avery's obsession with food. It reminded me of me. They had amazing chemistry together and I was just waiting for them to finally acknowledge their love.
Eventually Lucas did a complete 180. He confessed his love towards her AND had to face all of his past friends with benefits and cancel on them - FOREVER. He was a one girl kind of guy now and I can't wait to see where life will take them. I'm hoping that the next book will have their wedding.. or a baby.. OR SOMETHING but I also can't wait to see what the hell happened between their best friends (who were also hooking up).
I have questions and demand answers!
Cheater was one of those books that annoyed me in the beginning, became so freaking funny, and then made me fall in love with the two main characters. Lucas and Avery were a match made in heaven.. well, after all the shit sort of hit the fan.
Okay, so they sort of grew up together but he was dating one of her older sisters, Kayla. They ended up being engaged and then the day before the wedding.. well, he sleeps with her other older sister, Brooke. Meanwhile, he's always had this deep dark crush on Avery. Unfortunately, she was barely 18 at the time and she also had this massive crush on him.
Fate through them together, because she ends up interning at his job. Of course, they end up getting together. It starts off being fake.. but it eventually becomes real along the way. Their fights were adorable and I just loved Avery's obsession with food. It reminded me of me. They had amazing chemistry together and I was just waiting for them to finally acknowledge their love.
Eventually Lucas did a complete 180. He confessed his love towards her AND had to face all of his past friends with benefits and cancel on them - FOREVER. He was a one girl kind of guy now and I can't wait to see where life will take them. I'm hoping that the next book will have their wedding.. or a baby.. OR SOMETHING but I also can't wait to see what the hell happened between their best friends (who were also hooking up).
I have questions and demand answers!
vikcs's review
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.25
I will be honest an admit that I didn’t even glance at the blurb before I started to read the book because it’s being on of Rachel Van Dyken’s works was convincing enough for me. Unfortunately the plot didn’t really agree with me.
Just from the title you can guess pretty much what’s going to be the main focus of the story. Yes, cheating. I generally doesn’t have a problem with cheating in books it can make the story a bit more emotional (not so much in real life), on the other hand forgiving a cheater for stupid reasons is another thing. And really if you read a little of the story you realize that the cheating situation is not as serious in it as the blurb and the characters would suggest. However the whole story is written in a way that it makes you more aware of the cheating than necessary. There is too much focus on it with the constant mentions and reminders; makes the plot tense and I personally felt obligated to hate Lucas. So yeah the plot wasn’t the most appealing situation. Because of this it took me significantly longer to finish the book than I intended. Even so I find Rachel Van Dyken writing style really clean, crisp and entertaining. She has a couple of returning motives in her stories as it happens in this book too, but she is a really productive author so I think it’s understandable. What I really like about her that she creates unbelievable funny scenes in her books and generally her stories are dominated by humor. This is present in this story too, but not as successfully as some other books of hers. It just didn’t come through me at every opportunity.
“Rest assured, he’s gone completely blind in his left eye. I highly doubt he’d able to hit a moving target.”
“Great, Avery, I’ll just practice my zigzag.”
“… I saved your life with my kung fu.”
H“Admit it. The closest you’ve been to king fu is the movie Kung Fu Panda, which you probably watched because you’re convinced the panda is your spirit animal since it’s always eating.”
The story is told from dual point of view, Avery’s and Lucas’, the two main characters. Avery is really stoic, sarcastic and cynical and also pretty desperate at the beginning of the book. She is the constantly criticized little sister which made her a bit prickly. She is also have a mean, vindictive side and extremely jealous and let’s be honest meddlesome. So its maybe fate that she meets with Lucas, the last person she really wants to meet when she is at her most desperate predicament. Her being extremely stubborn and afraid to let him in again doesn’t help their situation one bit. Their unique humor and extreme attraction to each other is the one thing ease the situation.
“Family pressure combined with drunkenness and lying makes people do really stupid things. You know, brain cells die because of the…” He licked his lip. “A-alcohol.”
Lucas is an enigma for me. For one his idiotic mentality, insensitiveness and lifestyle doesn’t really agree with some of his actions. He wants somebody to go home too, whom he can enjoy his life outside of work, he lives kids and so and so but can’t commit to a relationship. He is lying to himself. Really when I was reading about him one thing jumped into my head. The Pygmalion effect, all his life everybody counted on him cheating, they were really waiting for the moment so he started to believe it about himself and maybe a bit out of spite he ‘accepted’ his fate.
This conversation almost made me abandoning the book:
“Until next Friday, Lucas Thorn.” She pulled out a compact and started to fix her face.
“I will put you down for every Friday.”
“Thank you.” She grinned. The snap of the compact shutting closed mad me jump in my seat. “For allowing me to take the open position.”
“You proved your worth!” He called back.
(This after a quickie in his office. It’s just disgusting and I can’t believe that any woman would act like this.)
The supportive characters mainly the families are quite crazy, kinda caricature-ish. They all represent some extreme personalities but this is something else that is specific to the author.
After the initial obstacles their love story is cute and funny, maybe a bit mushy too for a couple of chapters. It has it funny moments and drama too. I enjoyed it but not my favorite from Rachel Van Dyken at all. I just couldn’t get odds over the topic.
Just from the title you can guess pretty much what’s going to be the main focus of the story. Yes, cheating. I generally doesn’t have a problem with cheating in books it can make the story a bit more emotional (not so much in real life), on the other hand forgiving a cheater for stupid reasons is another thing. And really if you read a little of the story you realize that the cheating situation is not as serious in it as the blurb and the characters would suggest. However the whole story is written in a way that it makes you more aware of the cheating than necessary. There is too much focus on it with the constant mentions and reminders; makes the plot tense and I personally felt obligated to hate Lucas. So yeah the plot wasn’t the most appealing situation. Because of this it took me significantly longer to finish the book than I intended. Even so I find Rachel Van Dyken writing style really clean, crisp and entertaining. She has a couple of returning motives in her stories as it happens in this book too, but she is a really productive author so I think it’s understandable. What I really like about her that she creates unbelievable funny scenes in her books and generally her stories are dominated by humor. This is present in this story too, but not as successfully as some other books of hers. It just didn’t come through me at every opportunity.
“Rest assured, he’s gone completely blind in his left eye. I highly doubt he’d able to hit a moving target.”
“Great, Avery, I’ll just practice my zigzag.”
“… I saved your life with my kung fu.”
H“Admit it. The closest you’ve been to king fu is the movie Kung Fu Panda, which you probably watched because you’re convinced the panda is your spirit animal since it’s always eating.”
The story is told from dual point of view, Avery’s and Lucas’, the two main characters. Avery is really stoic, sarcastic and cynical and also pretty desperate at the beginning of the book. She is the constantly criticized little sister which made her a bit prickly. She is also have a mean, vindictive side and extremely jealous and let’s be honest meddlesome. So its maybe fate that she meets with Lucas, the last person she really wants to meet when she is at her most desperate predicament. Her being extremely stubborn and afraid to let him in again doesn’t help their situation one bit. Their unique humor and extreme attraction to each other is the one thing ease the situation.
“Family pressure combined with drunkenness and lying makes people do really stupid things. You know, brain cells die because of the…” He licked his lip. “A-alcohol.”
Lucas is an enigma for me. For one his idiotic mentality, insensitiveness and lifestyle doesn’t really agree with some of his actions. He wants somebody to go home too, whom he can enjoy his life outside of work, he lives kids and so and so but can’t commit to a relationship. He is lying to himself. Really when I was reading about him one thing jumped into my head. The Pygmalion effect, all his life everybody counted on him cheating, they were really waiting for the moment so he started to believe it about himself and maybe a bit out of spite he ‘accepted’ his fate.
This conversation almost made me abandoning the book:
“Until next Friday, Lucas Thorn.” She pulled out a compact and started to fix her face.
“I will put you down for every Friday.”
“Thank you.” She grinned. The snap of the compact shutting closed mad me jump in my seat. “For allowing me to take the open position.”
“You proved your worth!” He called back.
(This after a quickie in his office. It’s just disgusting and I can’t believe that any woman would act like this.)
The supportive characters mainly the families are quite crazy, kinda caricature-ish. They all represent some extreme personalities but this is something else that is specific to the author.
After the initial obstacles their love story is cute and funny, maybe a bit mushy too for a couple of chapters. It has it funny moments and drama too. I enjoyed it but not my favorite from Rachel Van Dyken at all. I just couldn’t get odds over the topic.
wallflowerreader_l's review against another edition
1.0
This book wasn't for me at all.
The story had so much potential but I'm so disappointed with how it was written.
The characters weren't coherent at all and there were too many disturbing things...
The story had so much potential but I'm so disappointed with how it was written.
The characters weren't coherent at all and there were too many disturbing things...
charlottenw1's review against another edition
4.0
Lucas Thorn.
His names even hot writing it.
I've read a few books by Rachel and I actually think this was my favourite. I listened to Cheater on audio and it was absolutely hilarious. Avery and Lucas have a complicated past and everything just happened wrong. As wrong as anything could go, that's the way it went at every point in their lives.
As time goes on they find their way back into each others lives but now Lucas has a girl set for every day of the week and Avery is barely scraping by with an unwanted pet spider and a peeping tom neighbour. Lucas and Avery have such a comical relationship and they both bring out the childish tendencies in each other. I loved them together and the fake relationship trope. Everything happened extremely quickly though. One minute I thought we had passed a month but actually, it had only been a week and everything had happened. I don't know how they found all the hours to fit it all in.
His names even hot writing it.
I've read a few books by Rachel and I actually think this was my favourite. I listened to Cheater on audio and it was absolutely hilarious. Avery and Lucas have a complicated past and everything just happened wrong. As wrong as anything could go, that's the way it went at every point in their lives.
As time goes on they find their way back into each others lives but now Lucas has a girl set for every day of the week and Avery is barely scraping by with an unwanted pet spider and a peeping tom neighbour. Lucas and Avery have such a comical relationship and they both bring out the childish tendencies in each other. I loved them together and the fake relationship trope. Everything happened extremely quickly though. One minute I thought we had passed a month but actually, it had only been a week and everything had happened. I don't know how they found all the hours to fit it all in.
jen286's review against another edition
3.0
This review was originally posted to Jen in Bookland
3.5 stars
Cheater was a fun read. Lucas and Avery were so cute together! I loved how they had a past, a rocky past, and how they both tried to stay away now that they were thrown together again. It was fun!
Avery hates Lucas Thorn. Or she does now. She used to be good friends with him, looked up to him, had a crush on him, but that was all before he proposed to her sister then cheated on her the night before the wedding. It ruined their families and they are still not over it. When Avery shows up for her first day of her new job she is not expecting to be working for the same devil himself, Lucas Thorn. She wasn't expecting so much. Like how she is still attracted to him, not like she would ever do anything about that. Besides he has changed. And she hates him, right?
Lucas Thorn messed up. He knows it, he knew it that fateful night, but he couldn't help himself. He tried to make it right afterward, but no one would listen to him or want to have anything to do with him so now he embarrasses the bachelor life. He doesn't need or want a monogamous relationship. He can't trust himself to not mess it up like he did last time. What if he would just cheat again? He doesn't want to hurt anyone so he just keeps a woman for every day of the week (except Sunday). They all know the score, they know they get one day a week until they don't want to anymore then no hard feelings. They are fine with it as Lucas Thorn is pretty amazing. Sure sometimes they want more, but it is never in the cards.
When Lucas sees Avery again all those issues from so long ago come rushing back. He is still drawn to her, but he can't do anything about it. Their parents used to be good friends, but now they barely even wave hello to each other. He can't mess it up again. Only...he can't seem to stay away. And now he doesn't seem to want his usual ladies...but what are they to do? She hates him and is not afraid to tell him how she feels whenever he is around. These two were fun. I loved how much grief Avery would give him and how the way to her heart was great food. I loved how he would show up with Pad Thai and she couldn't help herself - she wanted to eat it even if it meant spending more time with the devil. These two were fun. Their back and forth was awesome. And watching them come together again was so entertaining. I loved them together.
Now overall I really enjoyed this story. One thing did bug me though - besides that first time years ago Lucas never cheated. Current day Lucas was not a cheater. He never stepped outside the agreed upon parameters of his relationships with the women he slept with. So he didn't cheat. And everyone besides him and his ladies kept harping on it which did get a tad frustrating. His best friend, Avery, everyone would mention again and again how he cheats all the time....but he doesn't. There was even a scene where two of his ladies came over to say hi to him while he was out with Avery and he kisses both of them and Avery thinks how can girl one stand to have him cheating on her right in front of her? I just thought because he is not cheating? If everyone is okay with the situation he is not cheating. He is just dating/sleeping with a lot of women on a set schedule. So it got brought up often enough that it was a bit annoying but didn't take away from the story overall. Overall it was a lot of fun.
*Note: I received a free copy of this book for voluntary review consideration
3.5 stars
Cheater was a fun read. Lucas and Avery were so cute together! I loved how they had a past, a rocky past, and how they both tried to stay away now that they were thrown together again. It was fun!
Avery hates Lucas Thorn. Or she does now. She used to be good friends with him, looked up to him, had a crush on him, but that was all before he proposed to her sister then cheated on her the night before the wedding. It ruined their families and they are still not over it. When Avery shows up for her first day of her new job she is not expecting to be working for the same devil himself, Lucas Thorn. She wasn't expecting so much. Like how she is still attracted to him, not like she would ever do anything about that. Besides he has changed. And she hates him, right?
Lucas Thorn messed up. He knows it, he knew it that fateful night, but he couldn't help himself. He tried to make it right afterward, but no one would listen to him or want to have anything to do with him so now he embarrasses the bachelor life. He doesn't need or want a monogamous relationship. He can't trust himself to not mess it up like he did last time. What if he would just cheat again? He doesn't want to hurt anyone so he just keeps a woman for every day of the week (except Sunday). They all know the score, they know they get one day a week until they don't want to anymore then no hard feelings. They are fine with it as Lucas Thorn is pretty amazing. Sure sometimes they want more, but it is never in the cards.
When Lucas sees Avery again all those issues from so long ago come rushing back. He is still drawn to her, but he can't do anything about it. Their parents used to be good friends, but now they barely even wave hello to each other. He can't mess it up again. Only...he can't seem to stay away. And now he doesn't seem to want his usual ladies...but what are they to do? She hates him and is not afraid to tell him how she feels whenever he is around. These two were fun. I loved how much grief Avery would give him and how the way to her heart was great food. I loved how he would show up with Pad Thai and she couldn't help herself - she wanted to eat it even if it meant spending more time with the devil. These two were fun. Their back and forth was awesome. And watching them come together again was so entertaining. I loved them together.
Now overall I really enjoyed this story. One thing did bug me though - besides that first time years ago Lucas never cheated. Current day Lucas was not a cheater. He never stepped outside the agreed upon parameters of his relationships with the women he slept with. So he didn't cheat. And everyone besides him and his ladies kept harping on it which did get a tad frustrating. His best friend, Avery, everyone would mention again and again how he cheats all the time....but he doesn't. There was even a scene where two of his ladies came over to say hi to him while he was out with Avery and he kisses both of them and Avery thinks how can girl one stand to have him cheating on her right in front of her? I just thought because he is not cheating? If everyone is okay with the situation he is not cheating. He is just dating/sleeping with a lot of women on a set schedule. So it got brought up often enough that it was a bit annoying but didn't take away from the story overall. Overall it was a lot of fun.
*Note: I received a free copy of this book for voluntary review consideration
jgilge's review against another edition
3.0
So I liked this one, the witty banter, the enemies to lovers plot. It was all pretty well done. I was laughing most of the time during this book. The two characters were likeable, it was easy to root for them.
Lucas Thorn was a guy who made a mistake, given, it was a pretty big one, and was aiming for redemption. Avery Black was a girl who was a spitfire. She was a bit too much at times, but overall funny to read about, and really someone that deserved to get everything she wanted.
The plot was well done. It was a quick read that was well written, sweet and light-hearted with a happy ending. Perfect for a break from reality and heavy books.
Check out the full review here.