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Badd Motherf*cker
by Jasinda Wilder
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Okay okay, THIS is the kind of shallow, lighthearted, spicy easy read I enjoy.
There's not a lot in this book if I'm honest. Everything happens over the course of 72 hours. Literally these two idiots fall in love with each other in less than a week. Right after she catches her ex-fiancé cheating on her 10 minutes before she walks down the aisle to marry him.
But before I get into the absolute nothing (and sometimes batshit stupid things) that happened in this book, let me talk about what I DID enjoy.
I LOVED the brothers. All of them. I love the family dynamics and the fact that even when they're beating the absolute hell out of each other, there's a deep sense of comradery and love between them. I love that even though there's like 47 of them, they all have unique personalities and interesting backstories. You can almost SEE what their books are going to be like. I wish we'd have gotten a little more into the family dynamics honestly. I really wish we'd gotten to see Dru become part of their tribe more. The moment they got between her and Michael just *chef's kiss*. I needed way more of that.
Dru was fun and feisty. She's a blackbelt and shows it and that's awesome. She's also not afraid of being dominant in bed--I love that for her. I love that we finally get to see a woman owning her sexuality in these stupid spicy nothing sort of books. Growly men are great. Growly men being tied up and edged to the point of insanity by a freak who knows what she's doing--even better.
Sebastian isn't my FAVORITE MMC ever, but he wasn't bad at all. He's just the right amount of grumpy asshole with a heart of gold to get the job done, I think. But I don't think he'll end up being my favorite of the brothers (if I ever get around to reading all of their stories).
Now for the stuff I wasn't keen on:
1. The cussing. There's a LOT of it. Almost to the point where it feels forced and unnatural. I've been known to throw my fair share of expletives around, and even I was side-eyeing some of what I was reading.
2. The slut-shaming. Obviously, Dru has good reason to be angry at Tawny for fucking her fiancé. But the way she goes on and on about how much of a whore she is and how she badmouths her NAME was just overkill. Not cool. Especially when we've got an MMC who's simultaneously bragging (in his internal monologue, at least) about how many women he's screwed and how he likes it that way. It just left a foul taste in my mouth.
3. There's virtually no interaction with side characters outside of Sebastian's brothers (who all sort of just make their introductions so you get an image of who they're gonna be in THEIR books). There's zero plot. No traveling, no massive drama. Once Dru and Sebastian set eyes on each other, it's just fucking and occasionally eating and then meeting the brothers 1 by 1. There's literally nothing else going on at all ever at any point in the book.
3-a. Unless you count the "closure" scene between Dru's ex-fiancé and herself. Which honestly was the most insane part of this whole story. Let me give you a play by play:
1. Michael shows up in Alaska looking for Dru, with the intent to win her back.
2. He admits that the relationship was boring, and that he wasn't happy with her, that he didn't ever love her, but that he was gonna marry her "in case things changed".
3. He admits he's been fucking Tawny behind her back for TWO WHOLE YEARS and has no remorse nor had he any intention of stopping the affair.
4. He admits that he viewed Dru as the "other woman" and that Tawny was really the one who <i>got</i> him, even though he'd proposed and was going to marry Dru. 🤨😠
5. He admits that after Dru caught him boning Tawny not 10 minutes before they were meant to be wed and left, that he just went ahead and married Tawny because "all his family was there and so was the preacher and she was fine with it."
6. He left his HONEYMOON in Hawaii with Tawny to come to Alaska and I don't even know what. At the end of the conversation, he just admits that he hated how Dru found out, but that whatever situation he's in currently "works for him".
Dude, you could have sent that shit over a text message. I'm glad Dru punched him in the face, though.
4. I feel like there was room to expand and add depth to this book. Dru's mother leaving when she was a kid has clearly left her with some kind of trauma. That could have been explored. The situation with the brothers and Sebastian having to deal with their dad's death also had room for exploration--and we get none of it.
I have a feeling the will and the fact that all the brothers are being forced to stay and help with the bar for a year will be a throughline that ties this series together. Still. There needed to be more groundwork done in book one to keep the book from feeling like a giant smutty nothing burger.
5. Dru and Sebastian marry only 4 MONTHS after they meet. Do I need to say more about this?
Look, I have no idea why I'm not screaming into the void about having read the stupidest thing ever to be written. Some of these absolutely shallow, plotless books just <i>do>/i> it for me, and some of them don't. This one had enough charm, the characters had enough wit and personality, that I didn't feel like I was wasting my time.
Was this book good? Objectively, no. Absolutely not. But was I entertained? Yeah... yeah I kinda was. Sue me.
There's not a lot in this book if I'm honest. Everything happens over the course of 72 hours. Literally these two idiots fall in love with each other in less than a week. Right after she catches her ex-fiancé cheating on her 10 minutes before she walks down the aisle to marry him.
But before I get into the absolute nothing (and sometimes batshit stupid things) that happened in this book, let me talk about what I DID enjoy.
I LOVED the brothers. All of them. I love the family dynamics and the fact that even when they're beating the absolute hell out of each other, there's a deep sense of comradery and love between them. I love that even though there's like 47 of them, they all have unique personalities and interesting backstories. You can almost SEE what their books are going to be like. I wish we'd have gotten a little more into the family dynamics honestly. I really wish we'd gotten to see Dru become part of their tribe more. The moment they got between her and Michael just *chef's kiss*. I needed way more of that.
Dru was fun and feisty. She's a blackbelt and shows it and that's awesome. She's also not afraid of being dominant in bed--I love that for her. I love that we finally get to see a woman owning her sexuality in these stupid spicy nothing sort of books. Growly men are great. Growly men being tied up and edged to the point of insanity by a freak who knows what she's doing--even better.
Sebastian isn't my FAVORITE MMC ever, but he wasn't bad at all. He's just the right amount of grumpy asshole with a heart of gold to get the job done, I think. But I don't think he'll end up being my favorite of the brothers (if I ever get around to reading all of their stories).
Now for the stuff I wasn't keen on:
1. The cussing. There's a LOT of it. Almost to the point where it feels forced and unnatural. I've been known to throw my fair share of expletives around, and even I was side-eyeing some of what I was reading.
2. The slut-shaming. Obviously, Dru has good reason to be angry at Tawny for fucking her fiancé. But the way she goes on and on about how much of a whore she is and how she badmouths her NAME was just overkill. Not cool. Especially when we've got an MMC who's simultaneously bragging (in his internal monologue, at least) about how many women he's screwed and how he likes it that way. It just left a foul taste in my mouth.
3. There's virtually no interaction with side characters outside of Sebastian's brothers (who all sort of just make their introductions so you get an image of who they're gonna be in THEIR books). There's zero plot. No traveling, no massive drama. Once Dru and Sebastian set eyes on each other, it's just fucking and occasionally eating and then meeting the brothers 1 by 1. There's literally nothing else going on at all ever at any point in the book.
3-a. Unless you count the "closure" scene between Dru's ex-fiancé and herself. Which honestly was the most insane part of this whole story. Let me give you a play by play:
1. Michael shows up in Alaska looking for Dru, with the intent to win her back.
2. He admits that the relationship was boring, and that he wasn't happy with her, that he didn't ever love her, but that he was gonna marry her "in case things changed".
3. He admits he's been fucking Tawny behind her back for TWO WHOLE YEARS and has no remorse nor had he any intention of stopping the affair.
4. He admits that he viewed Dru as the "other woman" and that Tawny was really the one who <i>got</i> him, even though he'd proposed and was going to marry Dru. 🤨😠
5. He admits that after Dru caught him boning Tawny not 10 minutes before they were meant to be wed and left, that he just went ahead and married Tawny because "all his family was there and so was the preacher and she was fine with it."
6. He left his HONEYMOON in Hawaii with Tawny to come to Alaska and I don't even know what. At the end of the conversation, he just admits that he hated how Dru found out, but that whatever situation he's in currently "works for him".
Dude, you could have sent that shit over a text message. I'm glad Dru punched him in the face, though.
4. I feel like there was room to expand and add depth to this book. Dru's mother leaving when she was a kid has clearly left her with some kind of trauma. That could have been explored. The situation with the brothers and Sebastian having to deal with their dad's death also had room for exploration--and we get none of it.
I have a feeling the will and the fact that all the brothers are being forced to stay and help with the bar for a year will be a throughline that ties this series together. Still. There needed to be more groundwork done in book one to keep the book from feeling like a giant smutty nothing burger.
5. Dru and Sebastian marry only 4 MONTHS after they meet. Do I need to say more about this?
Look, I have no idea why I'm not screaming into the void about having read the stupidest thing ever to be written. Some of these absolutely shallow, plotless books just <i>do>/i> it for me, and some of them don't. This one had enough charm, the characters had enough wit and personality, that I didn't feel like I was wasting my time.
Was this book good? Objectively, no. Absolutely not. But was I entertained? Yeah... yeah I kinda was. Sue me.