Review: Good Girl (Vegas Billionaires, #1)

                                                    

Print Length: 245 pages

Publisher: Rutherford Press (May 13, 2018)

From Goodreads.com: I’ve always been a good girl.

I work hard, I follow the rules, and I always achieve my goals.

But sometimes good girls want things that aren’t good for them.
Or someone who isn’t good for them.
Like their new boss.

And sometimes they do very bad things to get his attention.
Like sell their virginity in an auction.

Who knew he’d be so very, very mad?
Maybe this was not my best laid plan…

  

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My Rating: 1 star out of 5

This was the most immature, implausible bunch of nonsense that I have read in a very long time (and I have read a lot of bad books). 

Let's start with Lydia shall we? This girl was the epitome of a Mary Sue if I ever read one. She was a member of the Girl Troopers (aka Girl Scouts) until she graduated high school. She was still a virgin at twenty-two when she graduated from college and started her first "adult" job. A little out there, (especially when she makes her own pajamas out of old bedsheets that she finds at Goodwill), but not entirely implausible. At least not until she starts talking. See, here is the thing. Our sweet little Lydia admits to having boyfriends in the past, but none of them inspired her to want more, which is understandable. A gorgeous guy kisses her in a bar one night she she gets fixated on it because she's instantly attracted to him and turned on by his kiss? Okay.... I'll go with that. 

But then she makes it her entire personality. Even after she finds out he's her boss (or her bosses bosses boss as she puts it as he is the one who owns the company), she still can't stop fixating on him. To the point that when she finds out that he has a habit of paying women for their company (so he can kick them out immediately after), she concocts a plan to auction off her virginity. You read that right. She's going to auction off her virginity in the hopes that he will buy her because he is the only man she can ever see herself wanting to sleep with. 

Of course, her plan works and she gets her man. Except instead of the one night she was planning on, he buys her for the month. Yup. The man who pays for pleasure just so he can be rid of them immediately after is now saddled with a virgin for an entire month. Well, soon-to-be ex-virgin, but you know what I mean. 

Of course, as the days go on our cold-hearted hero (whose name is Rhys by the way), not only starts to warm up to Lydia, but he starts to realize that he enjoys her company and the sweet innocence that she displays when it comes to things of a carnal nature. He takes her to Goodwill. He watches her favorite television show with her, he enjoys it when she cooks for him. 

Man this sounds like an adorable read right? 

Except when Lydia speaks? She sounds more like she is sixteen or younger than twenty-two. And that not only immediately pulled me out of the story, but gave me a serious case of nausea. For example, this exchange between the pair. 

Lydia starts off with "We're doing the sex now, right? Please say yes." 

"Yes, we're doing the sex, Lydia"

"Yay!" 

Mind you this is AFTER they have already had sex for the first time. But even if it wasn't, in what world does a twenty-two year old speak like this? And for that matter, what thirty-four year old man finds that attractive and doesn't instantly lose whatever desire he had prior to those words being uttered? 

Or how about the time he tells her she has to wait to go down on him, but then he wants to go down on her, and she says "How come you get to do the oral, and I have to wait." Of course this comes from the same girl who thinks he might like her because they keep having sex for longer than seven to thirteen minutes. Oh, and the same girl who automatically assumes that everyone is picturing them naked and having sex once the truth of their relationship comes out. I'm sorry, virgin or not, how does any rational person immediately assume that when someone finds out they are in a relationship, their immediate reaction is to picture them naked and doing it? 

I don't know what this author was going for, but for me, it was neither funny, nor sexy.  This was my first time reading this author, and if this is any indication as to how they write? It will be my last.