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3.31 AVERAGE
3.31 AVERAGE
This is a very nice friends to lovers story. Bobbi and Gabe have been friends since childhood. Bobbi has always been secretly in love with him, but is a tomboy and owns a body shop while Gabe is meticulously neat and a high-powered businessman who usually dates blonde models and actresses. When Bobbi drunkenly kisses him at a party, Gabe is suddenly aware of his friend as a woman, but doesn't know what to do about it. He decides that a secret affair would work just to get it out of their systems. Bobbi isn't happy about it, but she goes along - for a while.
Gabe is an alpha male with all the best qualities and I found him very attractive. Bobbi is cute and funny and though opposites, they bring out the best in each other. Fun story.
Gabe is an alpha male with all the best qualities and I found him very attractive. Bobbi is cute and funny and though opposites, they bring out the best in each other. Fun story.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I hadn't meant to reread this. I only picked it up to skim through it, but the characters, the story, the characters literally intrigued me from the first page. I felt so bad for Bobbi at times and I loved her so much. Gabe is a sweetheart, a clueless sweetheart. He really tried so hard not to hurt Bobbi, in his fear of losing her, her friendship. Sometimes trying to avoid things is what causes them to happen. And the man really tries to make it up to her. The grovelling is my favorite part of Natasha Anders' novels and though it's mild here, it's still manages to make their happy ending believable.
Plus it was wonderful revisiting all the beloved characters from her Unwanted series. I really hope she continues writing these books!
Plus it was wonderful revisiting all the beloved characters from her Unwanted series. I really hope she continues writing these books!
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book ended up being a big, fat nope for me because of Gabe.
Gabe is atrocious. He 100% used Bobbi for sex because she made it clear she was into him and wanted sex. He spent most of the novel in his head ripping apart her body and her looks. Then when he sighed and resigned himself to the fate that his dick could work apart from the fact that he didn't like her body, he spent the rest of the book both internally and to her face making fun of who she was as a person, how she dressed, the fact that she wasn't a girly, super feminine woman, and even verbalizes this to her face, NEAR THE END OF THE BOOK and Bobbi forgives him and gives him like his fourteenth chance.
Absolutely, fucking not. NOPE. I was so angry at this book and how the heroine subjected herself to abuse at the hands of this man, because she was so in love with him for years and just had to brush it aside to keep him. GOD DAMNIT. I HATE THIS TROPE IN FICTION SO MUCH. How hard is it to write healthy relationships and self esteem? Bobbi deserved SOOOOOOOOOOO much better than Gabe. She deserved a man who loved her for her body, for who she was deep down, not someone who just sighed and accepted that was unfortunately attracted to his friend.
I am so disappointed in this novel after loving the first one, and tolerating the second one. This one is really, really unforgivably awful in how it treats the heroine.
Gabe is atrocious. He 100% used Bobbi for sex because she made it clear she was into him and wanted sex. He spent most of the novel in his head ripping apart her body and her looks. Then when he sighed and resigned himself to the fate that his dick could work apart from the fact that he didn't like her body, he spent the rest of the book both internally and to her face making fun of who she was as a person, how she dressed, the fact that she wasn't a girly, super feminine woman, and even verbalizes this to her face, NEAR THE END OF THE BOOK and Bobbi forgives him and gives him like his fourteenth chance.
Absolutely, fucking not. NOPE. I was so angry at this book and how the heroine subjected herself to abuse at the hands of this man, because she was so in love with him for years and just had to brush it aside to keep him. GOD DAMNIT. I HATE THIS TROPE IN FICTION SO MUCH. How hard is it to write healthy relationships and self esteem? Bobbi deserved SOOOOOOOOOOO much better than Gabe. She deserved a man who loved her for her body, for who she was deep down, not someone who just sighed and accepted that was unfortunately attracted to his friend.
I am so disappointed in this novel after loving the first one, and tolerating the second one. This one is really, really unforgivably awful in how it treats the heroine.
Loved this one too
Reread 1/31/2017
While I do love this one I feel like in the first two books the hero and heroine had a stronger more emotional connection. Which I guess makes since considering those couples were married for a couple years when book started. So while I wish Gabe and Bobbi had a closer bond I still loved this book. Can't wait for her next book.
Reread 1/31/2017
While I do love this one I feel like in the first two books the hero and heroine had a stronger more emotional connection. Which I guess makes since considering those couples were married for a couple years when book started. So while I wish Gabe and Bobbi had a closer bond I still loved this book. Can't wait for her next book.
Started off okay and then they became FWB and then it’s complicated and then bam I forgive you let’s give this a try even though I don’t love you and you’re helplessly in love with me??????????? Could’ve executed these events better. But Gabe is such a bitch, you know? Ugh
I liked this book but I wanted to see more characters and scenes where Bobbi and Gabe do things.
I wanted to see more interactions with the main characters’ families as some of them were never even shown.
In the end Gabe managed to grovel enough for how he treated Bobbi but I still wanted a bit more scenes where they are shown together.
I like this author and I want to read other books by her.
Also, I want to find more books where the woman works in a traditionally masculine hob as I liked that in this book but I would definitely prefer if the man’s reaction was different (I wasn’t sure until the end if it was possible to forgive Gabe for the things he said to Bobbi).
I wanted to see more interactions with the main characters’ families as some of them were never even shown.
In the end Gabe managed to grovel enough for how he treated Bobbi but I still wanted a bit more scenes where they are shown together.
I like this author and I want to read other books by her.
Also, I want to find more books where the woman works in a traditionally masculine hob as I liked that in this book but I would definitely prefer if the man’s reaction was different (I wasn’t sure until the end if it was possible to forgive Gabe for the things he said to Bobbi).