The boys Vincent by Abbi Glines

Summary: Beau Vincent is rude, bad and dangerous to know. So why not good girl keep Ashton Gray away from him? She has all the perfect boyfriend-her town's local Prince Charming, Sawyer Vincent. But in the meantime Ashton is bored, Sawyer is away for the summer, and the heat between her and Beau is undeniable-as well as irresistible. Ashton is about to unleash her bad girl-but what will she do if Sawyer comes home? And how will Sawyer react when he returns to find his girlfriend in the arms of his cousin and best friend-?

This book was pretty much a disappointment. It's one of those ones that I must have had, because it has quite a few of my cliches guilty pleasure that I almost always enjoy reading about and the plot sounded like it would be nice, but implementing it was just so ... blah.
First of all, do the writing not much for me. It wasn't horrible, but it had a lot of Southern American-isms that really bugged me (my annoyance at phonetically written accents is no secret, and while this is not a large proportion of these have except for a lot of "y'all" is thrown, it had a lot of little sentences or creepy formulated sentences littered throughout the story that just made me nervous to read). This, I think, probably wouldn't bother most people 's--it is only specific to me because it's one of my pet peeves (hell, most people probably wouldn't even notice it).

The dialogue was terrible in some parts--it just doesn't flow well at all, seemed forced and not like the kind of thing people would say out loud in an interview. It was actually like the dialogue versions of info-dumps and it was just clumsy and awkward and frustrating to read. It was not all bad, but when it was ... * facepalm *

The pace of the plot was so kind of out. It was also swept up in the beginning and the relationship between Ash and Beau was not as good as it could've been because of that.  They literally went from hardly talk to each other in the coming years over each other in a day (not really a spoiler, because it happens within the first few chapters), there was no leading up to it and told they were friends three years ago does not make me forgive that.

I mentioned in the beginning of this review that the book quite a few clichés that I enjoy, and one the whole bad boy love interest thing is but basically all I enjoy reading about those gone in like a few pages or non-existent (the summary described Beau as rude, bad and dangerous--in fact a bad boybut in the actual book that he was not in the beginning nietzelfs apart from a drunken scene as one page long, and that was not him being a bad boy, that was just him your stereotypical drunk teen guy).

The characters ranged from the infuriating for the mind numbingly boring. Unfortunately, Ash was one of the infuriating ones--I just don't like her, they handled situations so insanely bad and her thought process made me want to smack her with the book and I just don't get why the boys were so obsessed with her because while the younger version of her sounded very nice and interesting, the adult version just irritating and ridiculous.

And we were not really show a lot of why she would have stayed with Sawyer for so long or why they would have gone out with him all the way in the first place (see if he asked her out before they changed to the girl she is now--and because their relationship was so boring and lacking in spark it made it seems odd that they would have changed so much for him in the first place). Go some love triangles, this was not very good.

Beau was the only sign that I really like, really, although closer to the end even he had moments of annoying idiocy. But in General, I loved him, and it was his character that this book good to read, and Ash was more tolerable around him.

The book was one of those ones that was easy to sit and read in one sitting without getting bored, but I never really enjoyed reading it and in the end I was more annoyed and disappointed than anything else, it was just totally boring and lacking the usual spark that usually have this kind of romances.

I hate writing negative reviews. FGkjkjbd. I would rate 1.5 stars out of 5 (I don't even have a desire to read the sequel, which is rare for me, even with books that are not free to me do). Here are a few positive reviews if you want to read a different opinion: here, here and here.

Later.

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