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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was a nice read in the beginning Marjorie was very awkward so her relationship with Rob started off awkward as well because both of them especially Marjorie were trying to hard to impress one another so it was weird but real. After it was nice I liked them Marjorie grew to like herself and her height.
emotional
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
if it wasn't for Marjorie I'd give this book 2 stars. Rob is a creepy arse.
Merged review:
if it wasn't for Marjorie I'd give this book 2 stars. Rob is a creepy arse.
Merged review:
if it wasn't for Marjorie I'd give this book 2 stars. Rob is a creepy arse.
The author repeated so many things; about her height, about how Logan and rich and mid way I just got bored and stopped reading.
My first Jessica Clare book and I loved it.
Marjorie is naive about everything. Apart from old people and what old people like to do. She has never had that one great love.
Robert Cannon has women dropping at his feet. He is a TV producer and everybody wants to be on tv.
Weddings always bring out the best in people.
Marjorie is naive about everything. Apart from old people and what old people like to do. She has never had that one great love.
Robert Cannon has women dropping at his feet. He is a TV producer and everybody wants to be on tv.
Weddings always bring out the best in people.
4.5 stars because there were a few too many holes in the story for me and they both really needed to grow on you.
I can say right now, this book won’t be for everyone. The female lead is a bit like me, a grandma at heart that prefers hanging with the oldies and doing ‘old people’ stuff than going out getting wasted etc. but she’s also a super stereotypical virgin (naive about everything and everyone). The male lead is basically leading a double life. The world knows him as a 30+ year old frat boy (his tv network is a ‘blokes’ thing where they go round telling chicks to show their tits on camera for money and a few other things) and she knows him as his at home persona (caring and considerate, easy going and a bit crude).
She eventually got better and so did he, and at points they both because either annoying or cringey, but overall it was also kinda realistic. Both characters felt different than the usual personalities in many romances. They won’t mesh well with people because a) he’s a bit of a douche at times, and b) she’s not really relatable to a large audience due to her personality, circumstances etc. but they felt real, like a friend you have or something. She’s super self conscious about her height etc, he’s super worried he isn’t good enough for her. He knows his network isn’t great but it made him money when he had nothing and he’s clinging to it, even though he hates the life it gives him (the women) and wants something more (he’s there to make a deal with Logan but Logan can’t respect him and he can’t really see why he wouldn’t do a deal to make money - money is really his only motivator in his business not enjoyment etc).
So yeah, they felt super real and I guess that’s what I also got from the previous series. I liked the people because they weren’t all the damn same. None of them speak the same, they’ve all got different back stories that completely make them different people and I find when reading as many romance as I do, and series where there’s a heap of friends or family members etc as the mains, they sometimes feel really similar in those series’. Like oh ones a little grumpy or into bdsm but take that away and they all the same guys. Same with the girls, ones shy or bombshell but their views are all the same they’re all attracted to the same looking guys and no one seems to have quirks or odd things they’re all just a bit ‘perfect’ (even the clumsy ones lol).
So it’s nice to see different people.
Do you need to read the previous series to understand this? No. The characters are all there, but the only mention that would really have people going ‘huh?’ Would be Cade’s appearance and why his date isn’t there, but it wasn’t in a way you’d be frustrated like you didn’t know a secret, i feel like you’d be more inclined to go read his book and see what was troubling him. The married (or to be married) couple mention how they met on the beach etc, but no more than that so it felt like a natural conversation not a huge recap of events and it made it work much more. I think it helped she knew them, and knew but barely knew the other girls so it was an observers perspective, she’d already know most of their stories etc and it didn’t need to be brought up again.
I can say right now, this book won’t be for everyone. The female lead is a bit like me, a grandma at heart that prefers hanging with the oldies and doing ‘old people’ stuff than going out getting wasted etc. but she’s also a super stereotypical virgin (naive about everything and everyone). The male lead is basically leading a double life. The world knows him as a 30+ year old frat boy (his tv network is a ‘blokes’ thing where they go round telling chicks to show their tits on camera for money and a few other things) and she knows him as his at home persona (caring and considerate, easy going and a bit crude).
She eventually got better and so did he, and at points they both because either annoying or cringey, but overall it was also kinda realistic. Both characters felt different than the usual personalities in many romances. They won’t mesh well with people because a) he’s a bit of a douche at times, and b) she’s not really relatable to a large audience due to her personality, circumstances etc. but they felt real, like a friend you have or something. She’s super self conscious about her height etc, he’s super worried he isn’t good enough for her. He knows his network isn’t great but it made him money when he had nothing and he’s clinging to it, even though he hates the life it gives him (the women) and wants something more (he’s there to make a deal with Logan but Logan can’t respect him and he can’t really see why he wouldn’t do a deal to make money - money is really his only motivator in his business not enjoyment etc).
So yeah, they felt super real and I guess that’s what I also got from the previous series. I liked the people because they weren’t all the damn same. None of them speak the same, they’ve all got different back stories that completely make them different people and I find when reading as many romance as I do, and series where there’s a heap of friends or family members etc as the mains, they sometimes feel really similar in those series’. Like oh ones a little grumpy or into bdsm but take that away and they all the same guys. Same with the girls, ones shy or bombshell but their views are all the same they’re all attracted to the same looking guys and no one seems to have quirks or odd things they’re all just a bit ‘perfect’ (even the clumsy ones lol).
So it’s nice to see different people.
Do you need to read the previous series to understand this? No. The characters are all there, but the only mention that would really have people going ‘huh?’ Would be Cade’s appearance and why his date isn’t there, but it wasn’t in a way you’d be frustrated like you didn’t know a secret, i feel like you’d be more inclined to go read his book and see what was troubling him. The married (or to be married) couple mention how they met on the beach etc, but no more than that so it felt like a natural conversation not a huge recap of events and it made it work much more. I think it helped she knew them, and knew but barely knew the other girls so it was an observers perspective, she’d already know most of their stories etc and it didn’t need to be brought up again.
Get ready, because I’m going to tell you that a book with this title is totally worth reading. I know, most of you are over billionaires. And the rest of you have had it with virgins. So Jessica Clare once again says, “Oh, you hate that? Then let me write more of it!” She’s written lots of billionaire books, and I haven’t read any of them because I, like you, am tired of billionaires. But she also wrote the Games series, so I decided to open my mind.
First up — this billionaire is a jerk. Rob owns a TV network (and maybe a whole enterprise based upon that network) that was built upon a Girls Gone Wild-esque show called “Tits or GTFO.” And it’s pretty much what you’d expect. We meet Rob as he’s floating in the ocean at a fancy resort, and girls are swimming up to him to either show him their tits or to make out with other girls, because they want to get his attention and get on TV. Rob is over it. Not in a moral, respect-for-women epiphany kind of way. He’s just tired of fake boobs and he wants to finish a business call without getting them shoved in his face all the time. He’s still totally cool with making money off of their behavior.
Now, meet the Virgin, Marjorie. Her parents died when she was young and she was raised by her grandparents. She’s six-foot-one, and very insecure about her height. She spends her free time hanging out with old, retired people, not because she’s a do-gooder but because she’s more comfortable around people that age. She honestly enjoys knitting, shuffleboard, and bingo. She’s a virgin because the only time she made out with a guy, he was drunk at a party and the next day he told everyone that he regretted it. Her height intimidates men. So, she’s sweet and good-natured in a believable way. She’s at the fancy beach resort for the wedding of her coworker (who is marrying the billionaire owner of the resort).
Rob, drunk and floating in his inner tube, angers the women who offer to let him snort coke off of their bellies. They flip his raft, his leg cramps, and suddenly he’s drowning in calm waters not far from shore. A fitting end. Marjorie, in what Rob sees as an unsexy polka-dot bikini, rescues him and gives him mouth to mouth. He falls for her instantly, because that’s what happens when someone saves your life. But the lifeguards take over and Marjorie disappears.
When Rob is about to abandon the resort, he sees Marjorie again. She’s wearing tall, sexy shoes, which make her even taller, and he instantly fantasizes about having her long legs wrapped around his neck. So he asks her out, and she accepts. Their first date is terrible. Marjorie gets drunk to cover her nerves, and Rob subdues his crass, foul-mouthed nature to become Datable Rob, “a bland putz.” Their second date involves bingo, an ugly sweater vest, and Marjorie taking advice from octogenarians. It is also terrible.
Just when I thought I’d be reading about Datable Rob and his identity crisis, he rips off his sweater and tells Marjorie exactly what he’d like to do to her. And just when I thought I’d be reading about a shocked virgin willing to be taught, she plays the V-card and says no. This billionaire and virgin are not like the other billionaires and virgins, do you see?
I hated Rob, okay? But by the end of the book, well, he still wasn’t my type, but I totally believed that Marjorie loved him. And I believed that he loved, worshipped, and adored her. He didn’t win her over by flying her around the world, buying her expensive clothes, or by flashing his money. He just hung out with her, kissed her a lot, and told her all the time how attractive she was. It was downright sweet. (But also sexy, if you know what I’m saying. Don’t worry, Marjorie does not hold out forever.) I’m telling you, I want to read it again just thinking about it.
So if you’ve given up on billionaires and virgins, or if you’ve never read them, let this book be The One for you. Like Rob, it’s crass, over-the-top, and funny, and it will win you over in the end.
Rating: A-
This review was originally posted on Red Hot Books at: http://redhotbooks.com/2015/02/review-the-billionaire-and-the-virgin-by-jessica-clare.html
Review copy provided by the publisher
First up — this billionaire is a jerk. Rob owns a TV network (and maybe a whole enterprise based upon that network) that was built upon a Girls Gone Wild-esque show called “Tits or GTFO.” And it’s pretty much what you’d expect. We meet Rob as he’s floating in the ocean at a fancy resort, and girls are swimming up to him to either show him their tits or to make out with other girls, because they want to get his attention and get on TV. Rob is over it. Not in a moral, respect-for-women epiphany kind of way. He’s just tired of fake boobs and he wants to finish a business call without getting them shoved in his face all the time. He’s still totally cool with making money off of their behavior.
Now, meet the Virgin, Marjorie. Her parents died when she was young and she was raised by her grandparents. She’s six-foot-one, and very insecure about her height. She spends her free time hanging out with old, retired people, not because she’s a do-gooder but because she’s more comfortable around people that age. She honestly enjoys knitting, shuffleboard, and bingo. She’s a virgin because the only time she made out with a guy, he was drunk at a party and the next day he told everyone that he regretted it. Her height intimidates men. So, she’s sweet and good-natured in a believable way. She’s at the fancy beach resort for the wedding of her coworker (who is marrying the billionaire owner of the resort).
Rob, drunk and floating in his inner tube, angers the women who offer to let him snort coke off of their bellies. They flip his raft, his leg cramps, and suddenly he’s drowning in calm waters not far from shore. A fitting end. Marjorie, in what Rob sees as an unsexy polka-dot bikini, rescues him and gives him mouth to mouth. He falls for her instantly, because that’s what happens when someone saves your life. But the lifeguards take over and Marjorie disappears.
When Rob is about to abandon the resort, he sees Marjorie again. She’s wearing tall, sexy shoes, which make her even taller, and he instantly fantasizes about having her long legs wrapped around his neck. So he asks her out, and she accepts. Their first date is terrible. Marjorie gets drunk to cover her nerves, and Rob subdues his crass, foul-mouthed nature to become Datable Rob, “a bland putz.” Their second date involves bingo, an ugly sweater vest, and Marjorie taking advice from octogenarians. It is also terrible.
Just when I thought I’d be reading about Datable Rob and his identity crisis, he rips off his sweater and tells Marjorie exactly what he’d like to do to her. And just when I thought I’d be reading about a shocked virgin willing to be taught, she plays the V-card and says no. This billionaire and virgin are not like the other billionaires and virgins, do you see?
I hated Rob, okay? But by the end of the book, well, he still wasn’t my type, but I totally believed that Marjorie loved him. And I believed that he loved, worshipped, and adored her. He didn’t win her over by flying her around the world, buying her expensive clothes, or by flashing his money. He just hung out with her, kissed her a lot, and told her all the time how attractive she was. It was downright sweet. (But also sexy, if you know what I’m saying. Don’t worry, Marjorie does not hold out forever.) I’m telling you, I want to read it again just thinking about it.
So if you’ve given up on billionaires and virgins, or if you’ve never read them, let this book be The One for you. Like Rob, it’s crass, over-the-top, and funny, and it will win you over in the end.
Rating: A-
This review was originally posted on Red Hot Books at: http://redhotbooks.com/2015/02/review-the-billionaire-and-the-virgin-by-jessica-clare.html
Review copy provided by the publisher
Great start to the Billionaire spinoff series. This was a fun quick read with all the wonderful characters from the previous series making an appearance. I got more than a few giggles from this story. Rob was so blatantly fowl mouthed and unashamed by it and Marjorie just took it all in stride, blushing all the way. Though he was womanizing a$$hat, he does redeem himself beautifully!
I love Jessica Clare and her books and I was so happy reading this..