The Virgin's Guide to Misbehaving (Bluebonnet, #4)
Jessica Clare
Playing innocent is easy. After being the quiet, shy girl her whole life, Elise Markham is ready for a mental makeover. She’s done keeping to herself and staying out of trouble—it’s time to break out of her shell and maybe meet someone intriguing in the process. So, on a photography trip to Bluebonnet, she has a whole lot more on her mind than snapping photos, especially when Rome walks into the picture. Playing dirty is fun. The newest instructor at Wilderness Survival Expeditions has a colorful past, to say the least. Having come from a family of notorious con artists that destroyed his credit and reputation, all before his eighteenth birthday, Rome just wants a decent job and a quiet life in a town where no one knows his name. He’s exactly the kind of bad boy that an innocent girl like Elise should stay far away from. But Elise is tired of doing what’s right. She’s ready to throw caution to the wind—and let Rome show her just how exciting being bad can be…
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I don't know if this series is supposed to be classed as New Adult - the characters were certainly adult age (24 and 28, I think?) - but it's written in a very young, New Adulty style, and the tattooed, pierced, misunderstood bad boy simply screams it. As do some of the too-kooky-to-be-real side characters, whom I'm assuming were the lead couples in previous books. In this sense, it was a little cheesy and predictable in places, but overall, I really enjoyed the characters and the storyline in The Virgin's Guide to Misbehaving.
The biggest point of interest for me has to be the character of Elise. As a child, she had Scoliosis and although she's had corrective spinal surgery, it's left her with misaligned shoulders and hips. She also had a large port wine birth mark on her face until recent years. For both of these reasons, and her childhood spent largely hiding away, she's now a very shy and sheltered adult, with absolutely no social skills or romantic experience, who still sees herself as a "monster". If actual fact, she's now quite beautiful, on the outside and especially in, and just needs someone *cough*Rome*cough* to see her for what she is.
A sweet and sexy read 31/2 Stars ★★★1/2
A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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