Title: P.I.T.A. (L.A. Liaisons, #3)
Author: Brooke Blaine
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: January 30, 2017
You could say Brooke Blaine was a book-a-holic from the time she knew how to read; she used to tell her mother that curling up with one at 4 a.m. before elementary school was her 'quiet time.' Not much has changed except for the espresso I.V. pump she now carries around and the size of her onesie pajamas. Brooke enjoys writing sassy contemporary romance, whether in the form of comedy, suspense, or erotica. The latter has scarred her conservative Southern family for life, bless their hearts. If you'd like to get in touch with her, she's easy to find - just keep an ear out for the Rick Astley ringtone that's dominated her cell phone for ten years.
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Read the series!
Licked (L.A. Liaisons, #1)
Hooker (L.A. Liaisons,#2)
3 “Frenemies” Stars
ARC provided by the author
Thank you!
If you read my review of Hooker,
book two in the L.A. Liaisons series, you’ll notice I’d been dying to get my
hands on the next book since then. The little we got to see of Paige in that
book showed me that she was hilarious and she was so going to fall in love with
her frenemy. My body was ready for the hate and love relationship those two
would bring me.
Being as excited as I was about P.I.T.A. and having waited almost a year for
it, I couldn’t help myself and dove into it the moment the ARC landed on my
Kindle.
The third book in the series focused on a group of smart, sexy and
independent women has tons of voice, hilarious dialogue and burn-my-Kindle
sexual tension.
In case you haven’t read the previous books (a mistake you must remedy
sooner rather than later), Paige (a.k.a. PITA) and Dawson (a.k.a. Dick Dawson)
go way back. We got to see a little of their banter in the previous books, but
this time the hate-and-love relationship is under the spotlight.
In this book, Paige meets Dawson again at her parent’s anniversary
party. Thing is, Paige and her parents don’t have the best relationship, and
when they deliver shocking news, Paige reacts the only way she knows: by
confronting them, appearances be dammed. Seeing how things are quickly turning
disastrous, Dawson steps in and takes Paige away, which only makes her angrier
at him. It’s obvious to anyone but Paige that Dawson truly cares about her, and
that’s why he intervened. It’s also obvious that Paige is trying way too hard
to hate him, and that probably means she’s trying to hide feelings much deeper
and different.
So, yeah, from the get go, we get to see these two play around their
attraction to each other and use sarcasm and teasing as their main weapons.
It’s fun and sexy, just like I thought it’d be.
You know what else is fun? Watching Paige interact with her girlfriends.
The dynamic between those four women make me want to be one of them. They tease
each other in a way only longtime friends can. They don’t care to fit into a
mold of what women should do or say. They openly talk about sex and love and
everything else. Again, I felt like I was inside Sex & the City, but
instead of NYC, we had L.A.
Despite all of those great things about this book, I ended up not
enjoying it as much as the first and that’s because I had some reservations
about some of the choices made. Choices I thought were not only extremely
important to the evolution of the story, but also to how they shaped one of the
main characters into someone I’m not sure I liked all that much.
Warning:
SPOILERS AHEAD.
Here’s the thing, the way
Dawson was portrayed made him a real jackass in my book, and made me seriously
question his understanding of what a consensual relationship means.
I can’t get behind a character
who, despite being warned of the consequences, insists and pleads for a woman
to drink something that will make her act out of character and forget the past
few hours of her night.
I also can’t get behind a
character who sleeps with that woman when she’s so drunk she can’t walk
straight, especially when he knows she wouldn’t have done that if she had been
sober.
Same goes for how he refused
to sign the annulment papers when the woman he drunk-married in Vegas
clearly didn’t want to stay married to him and was being blackmailed by a third
person to stay married.
The worst thing about this
whole situation involving Dawson and consent is that I could see how Dawson
could’ve reacted differently, meaning he probably should’ve. I mean, he
could’ve been the one to try to keep Paige from drinking the strong stuff,
which she would’ve ignored because Paige isn’t the kind of woman to do or not
do something just because a man said so. She still would’ve gotten drunk and
they still could’ve gotten married in Vegas.
The staying married thing
could’ve also been solved by bringing that reporter and her incriminating
article a bit earlier, before the papers were ready to be signed. Paige would
feel compelled to remain married to him (a fake marriage) to save her
reputation as a wedding planner, and Dawson would agree to pretend to be a
happy couple because he obviously already loved her.
So, yeah, I do realize
Dawson’s motive for marrying her and refusing to let her go is his feelings for
her, but that doesn’t justify the way he acted or the choices he made. Not as
far as I’m concerned. Because of those choices, I couldn’t fully connect with
his character and embrace his struggle to make her fall in love with him, too,
which made me appreciate the story a lot less than I had expected.
**END OF SPOILER**
Despite my reservations and thoughts on
some choices, P.I.T.A. brings a lot of the humor and sass that seem to be
trademarks of this series, so fans of Brooke Blaine and the L.A. Liaisons women
will still enjoy this book.
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