Good Girl Complex (Avalon Bay, #1)
Elle Kennedy
She does everything right. So what could go wrong? Mackenzie "Mac" Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents' insistence. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College. Mac's had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. Cooper is rough around the edges. Raw. Candid. A threat to her ordered existence. Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life. Despite his disdain for the trust-fund kids he sees coming and going from his town, Cooper soon realizes Mac isn't just another rich clone and falls for her. Hard. But as Mac finally starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the secret he's been keeping from her threatens the only place she's ever felt at home.
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3.75 rounded up - another silly little romance that had me giggling, but the dialogue was too cheesy at times and the ending was wrapped up way too quickly.
mac, coop, and daisy forever tho
0it was okay. I liked the main characters just fine, but there were too many side characters to really give any of them any worthwhile depth. I felt like the conflict was spread too thin across people and events, and some character elements were really underutilized. the plot progression felt lazy and very predictable with the forgiveness feeling rushed. needed more groveling imo. I knew what was going to happen by page 30, which was kind of a drag. I think if the author had delved deeper into a more select few points of conflict, the story would have been more well rounded which could have balanced out the wattpady predictability. not super jazzed that I (once again) bought book 2 before book 1, but not super mad either. perhaps it will be a hook, line, and sinker situation where I like book 2 better. it was kind of obvious from the force-fed side characters that the author is setting this up to be a series where each friend in the group gets a book. felt lazy imo
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