Mini Book Reviews: Bad Boys and Messy Love

Mia and the Bad Boy by Lisa Burstein

Pages: 181
Publish date: May 19th
Publisher: Entangled: Crush
ISBN: –
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This good girl’s about to meet her match…

Ryder Brooks is living the dream—he’s famous, loved by millions of girls, and miserable. All he really wants is to write his own music, not Seconds to Juliet’s sugary sweet pop. In order to do that, though, the “bad boy” of the band will have to play by the rules. And that includes behaving with his new—and super cute—über-good-girl tutor.

Mia Reyes is in fangirl heaven. Tutoring her favorite member of her favorite band? It’s a dream come true…until it turns into a complete nightmare. Ryder is nothing like she thought. He’s crude, arrogant, and pretty much a total jerk. And the worst part? She’s roped into pretending to be his girlfriend so that no one finds out he’s being tutored. Fake kisses, plenty of PDA, and even sharing his hotel room…

But sometimes even the baddest of bad boys needs a little redemption.

Mia and Bad Boy:

I received a copy of Mia and the Bad Boy from Entangled: Crush via Netgalley in exchange for a review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts on the book.

Mia and the Bad Boy is the companion to Aimee and the Heartthrob and the second book in the Backstage Pass Series, however it is not written by the same author as Aimee.

Lisa Burstein is the author of Mia and the Bad Boy and I quite enjoyed here writing style, it’s very similar to the author of the previous book but still has that same vibe. I also think this works since the book isn’t about the Amiee and Miles but his band mate Ryder Brooks.

Ryder is quite different from Miles, like the title says, his is the bad boy of the group, but he has his secrets and one of them is that he didn’t pass high school and to pass them he is in need of a tutor. The fact is that Ryder has gone through tutor like he has girls.

Then Mia comes into the picture. Mia is the female protagonist of Mia and the Bad Boy and while she says she is this good girl, the way that she acts is quite different. Mia wasn’t as ‘innocent’ as she was made out to be. For not having a boyfriend or even a first kiss, she knew how to flirt and so it didn’t make sense that she was placed as this ‘good girl.’

The chemistry between Mia and Ryder was really well written, expect for that fact that they pretty much fell in love in a month. So the romance moved quite fast, but they were cute together. Ryder brings out the ‘bad side’ in Mia and Mia brings out the good in Ryder, their dynamic was fun to read.

Overall, yes the romance moved fast and Mia wasn’t your typical bad good, but it was fun to read. If you like some cheesy romance and everyone does, then you will like Mia and the Bad Boy. It is also such a quick read that I finished it, in one sitting.

There are many ups and downs, but then again, there is also fun moments and certain moments that you might not expect. I hope that there will be additional books in this series about the other bad member of Seconds to Juliet as like I said they are fun reads.

Those Girls by Lauren Saft

Pages: 336
Publish date: June 9th
Publisher: Poppy (Little Brown)
ISBN: 0316403660
Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US

Some girls will always have your back, and some girls can’t help but stab you in it.

Junior year, the suburbs of Philadelphia. Alex, Mollie and Veronica are those girls: they’re the best of friends and the party girls of the school. But how well does everybody know them–and really, how well do they know one another? Alex is secretly in love with the boy next door and has joined a band–without telling anyone. Mollie suffers from a popular (and possibly sociopathic) boyfriend, as well as a serious mean streak. And Veronica just wants to be loved–literally, figuratively, physically….she’s not particular. Will this be the year that bonds them forever….or tears them apart for good?

Those Girls:

I received a copy of Those Girls from Poppy via Netgalley in exchange for a review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts on the book.

Okay before I start, for me Those Girls should not be classed as YA and if it was, it should be aimed at the older spectrum of YA and there also be some sort of warning for language and sexual content.

I would not normally say this, however when I started to read Those Girls I really did get the shock of my life. I had to step back for a minute and re-check that it was a young adult book because wow the language that was being used was a slap in the face.

Those Girls follows three girls Alex, Mollie and Veronica through their lives in junior year who seem to be best friends on the other hand, throughout the story the reader gets an insight on how they feel and exactly how bitchy they are.

Alex would be my favourite of the girls. While my dislike for Mollie and Veronica are probably person dislike of their life. It’s all about sex, sex and more sex. With boyfriends and sometimes with others.

The one thing that I disliked about the book was all the bitching. By the end of Those Girl I just wanted to slam my phone against my head. I really had enough. These girls were supposed to be best friends and all they do is talk behind each other’s backs or even if they don’t speak to someone about them they were thinking it.

The sexual content was a little too much for me, considering it was a young adult book. It wasn’t fully graphic, but way more than a young adult book has to be.

Those Girls is like Gossip Girl on steroids. Yes I didn’t like a lot of what the book was about and things that happened. Nonetheless it was still fun to read. If it was classed as a new adult book, I don’t think I would have such a problem with it, but hey.

Lauren Saft is an intriguing writer and some pretty interesting characters that were fun to read about, then again, I wouldn’t want them to be my best friends in real life. From boy trouble to family trouble to very creepy teacher trouble, Those Girls was an interesting read and if you don’t mind the language and content then I think you will enjoy it.