lunedì 1 dicembre 2014

Bad boys do by Victoria Dahl

Apparently this is a sequel; there's at least another book with the same people, more or less, but I haven't read it.
This one is not bad, a nice love story, but not exactly would all those comments printed on the cover would let you imagine. Brilliant? maybe a bit Sexy? well, there's a lot of sex, no doubt about that Hilariously funny? Now come on, where's all the fun? It's a nice read, quick and enough well written, but it's not like I was rolling on the floor you know. Protagonist is Olivia, 35, divorced, trying to get her life back on the right track after living in her husband's shadow for so long. She's very serious, she's responsible, then she meets Jamie Donovan, beautiful, younger and free, and of course she falls in love with him. Eventually. This is one of those stories when they pretend they're just having fun an sex, no strings attached and all that kind of stuff, until at the end she finds herself totally in love with him. Requited, of course, it's a love story after all.
Her ex-husband is arrogant, selfish, and already has a new girlfriend, as if trying to make her jelous.
The only funny characters is Gwen, Olivia's friend. I liked her.
In a way the only problem is Olivia herself. She's supposed to be serious, precise, her husband the only man she ever had in her life, a woman who doesn't know how to have fun at all, and yet she goes from one excess to the other. She doesn't know how to have fun, okay, but still she's only 35 and she was almost shocked when he wanted to go out at night, meeting her at 9pm, because she goes to sleep at 9pm... Come on, that's a bit excessive, isn't it? I understand a working woman going to sleep early if she hasn't any dates, with men or friends, but to be shocked as if he was proposing something crazy is a bit excessive in my opinion. On the other hand not only they do it everywhere, but she almost jumps on him at a bus stop... Well, since Jamie is described as supersexy this is more understandable that her being asleep at 9pm. Every single day. She doesn't have any interest at all in anything, no books, no films, no music, nothing.
I find annoying the attitude of the women going to Jamie's club. They feel free not only to flirt with him, but to touch him, as if he was some kind of object. That attitude is annoying in men, when there's a waitress, and it's annoying done by women too, with a waiter. He's working, come on! If it was a man touching a girl, the reaction would be that he's a pig, that he should learn his manners. These women are the same.

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