Everyone calls me Lucky, but when it comes to love, I’m anything but.
The Day I Stopped Falling for Jerks, the first in the fun and flirty Jerk Duet from New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe is LIVE!
I have a long history of dating the wrong men.
You know the ones I’m talking about.
The beautiful, charming guys who are quite literally too good to be true.
The ones who are impulsive in love and prefer short flings over long-term relationships.
I’m talking about the jerks.
The guys who taste so good, but are so very bad.
After going through the most ridiculous breakup in the history of breakups, I thought I’d learned my lesson. I officially put myself into jerk rehab and committed to changing my ways.
But, let’s be real here, love is never that easy.
Especially when an arrogant, charming, he-devil of a sexy alpha man gets involved.
Aussie accent.
Tanned skin.
Muscular, surfer bod.
Gorgeous brown eyes.
And the kind of sexy smile that brings women to their knees.
Oh, did I mention that he’s also my best friend’s brother?
Yeah. This story, my story, it’s a real doozy you guys.
The day I stopped falling for jerks, I met Oliver Arsen—the biggest jerk of all.
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Review:
4 stars
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This was a great start to this duet! This is the first part of Lucky and Ollie's story. Lucky is a writer/blogger/social media guru for an online lifestyle website. She has a really poor relationship history and finds herself always picking jerks to date and getting her heart broken. When her most recent relationship goes belly up in spectacular fashion, she finds herself swearing off jerks for good. Her boss decides to send her on a several months-long assignment flying around the world writing about the professional surfing circuit. The assignment was set up by Lucky's best friend, Ally, because Ally's brother, Oliver Arsen, is a former pro surfer who runs the circuit. When Lucky meets Ollie, she thinks he is another huge jerk, albeit a super hot one. Sparks fly between them and as they are forced to spend time together over the next few months, Lucky starts to wonder if Ollie isn't the jerk she thought he was and if she could be falling for him.
This book was really good. It is told from Lucky's POV and is mainly told as she narrates a podcast about her bad luck in love and how her relationship unfolds with Ollie. I loved Lucky's character and her voice. She is funny, down to earth and good at her job. Her podcasts were so candid and real. I think this would be a great book to listen to on audio because it would be like listening to a podcast. I liked Ollie too, although he is a little mysterious because we don't get his POV. I can't wait for the second book in the duet so we can find out what he has been thinking or hiding. Ollie seems to be very laid back, charming and a nice guy, not really a jerk. But some of his actions are unclear, from Lucky's POV, so I can't wait to see what his reasoning is.
Lucky's relationship progression with Ollie is kind of a slow burn. One thing that bothered me a bit is that there is little active pursuit of each other on either of their parts, it just kind of happened. They were traveling on the same circuit and staying in the same hotels, but would go days between trying to see each other. There was no urgency to be together. That was a little bothersome to me, because I like that tension in romance books. But that did get better as the book went along. I still really liked the book. I think Ollie and Lucky make a great couple. The story is fresh, exciting and original. I loved the surfing aspect, as well as Lucky's writing and podcasts. Her quest to go back over her past relationships, by writing Dear Ex letters, to figure out why she keeps picking jerks and where she went wrong, is fascinating and heart-felt.
Overall, this was a really good book and I will be waiting for book two in this duet with baited breath!
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