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Title: Boomerang Boyfriend
(Boyfriend Chronicles #3)
Author: Chris Cannon
Release Date: September 11th, 2017
(Boyfriend Chronicles #3)
Author: Chris Cannon
Release Date: September 11th, 2017
Age Category/ Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Entangled Teen (Crush)
Working with her best friend’s brother at Betty’s Burgers, free-spirited Delia starts to see Jack in a new light. Not only has Jack-the-Jerk turned into a hottie, he’s even acting like a niceguy, who rescues dogs and knows how she likes her coffee. But if Jack is into her, then why is he keeping her a secret? Of course, if her best friend doesn’t approve, Delia could lose the only family she’s ever known.
Seeing Delia in her retro waitress uniform throws Jack’s world out of whack. She’s always been just another pain in the butt little sister...not a datable female. But she’s rockin’ the Pie Princess tiara, and even her hot-pink striped hair is sexy. What’s that about? He needs to get his head on straight, because artsy, funky Delia and her nonconformist ways don’t fit in his safe and ordered world.
Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains kisses that make the world fall away and snarky humor that may cause you to LOL in public places.
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2.5 “Almost Book Boyfriend” Stars
ARC via NetGalley
Thank you, Entangled Teen (Crush)
I try not to get mad at
books, but I have to say I’m pretty mad at this one, because I was so close to
finding a new book boyfriend and he practically got ripped out of my hands last
minute.
Like I mentioned in my
last review of an Entangled Teen (Crush) title, I can often count on them to
bring me sweet and cute YA romance stories. This started out like that. Boomerang Boyfriend attracted my attention
with the “falling in love with my best friend’s older brother” trope, and kept
it when I first met Jack.
Jack-the-Jerk, like the MC
Delia called him, wasn’t a jerk at all (not until the 85% mark, at least). Sure
he had the brooding teen thing going on, but I love that, so I didn’t mind. But
most of all, Jack was a dog person. A true dog person. His actions and thoughts
when around Rocky, his best friend’s dog, was just too adorable. Right from the
beginning I saw Jack was a boy after my heart.
I squatted down and rubbed Rocky’s ears. “I bet you were framed, huh,
buddy?” He leaned into the ear rub and sighed. “I bet it was the cat, wasn’t
it?” He sighed again like he was agreeing with me.
Then came the whole story
with his grandfather and his father, and the way he thought he was losing his
mother, too, and I was ready to hug him because my heart hurt for him.
Up until the 85% mark, I
was in love with Jack. So in love with him that I found it easy to ignore how
unlikable Delia, the other main character was. I was in it for Jack and nothing
mattered. But, then…the jealousy/pettiness plot kicked in and Jack lost major
points with me. Worst of all, it felt so out of character. He hadn’t come
across as the kind of guy that would throw a hissy fit over something so small
as Delia refusing to share a secret that wasn’t even hers with him. I honestly
thought the whole thing felt contrived and ruined his character, which was a
shame.
I still like Jack, but it’s
disappointing to go from love to like here because of something so silly.
As for Delia, I can’t say
I felt as bad for my change of heart. I thought she was an interesting
character in the beginning, because she had the “I don’t care what other people
thing” attitude and she even made it sound genuine. But then she turned into a
little monster early on, and she completely lost me.
I went from annoyed to mad
with Delia pretty fast. She came across as selfish and immature when she poorly
dealt with the situation with Aiden. The guy was sharing a huge secret with
her, and explained why it was a secret, and instead of being a friend, she was only
worried about herself. Besides, it wasn’t as if she had been so in love with
him that his rejection really hurt her. It was just a crush. So get over it
already, girl! Maybe I could’ve forgiven her if she had shown Aiden a little
more support as the story progressed, but in all honesty she only got worst.
In fact, I was way more
into Jack’s chapters and his interactions with his best friend and the dogs
(plural, because he adopted one for himself) than anything about his relationship
with Delia. It simply didn’t work for me, because I had no sympathy for Delia
at all.
I truly enjoyed all of
Jack’s scenes with Trevor, Rocky and Buddy (the puppy), and I wish the book had
been about those two best friends and their amazing dogs being adorable together. Someone write me this book:
If it had been, and if
Jack hadn’t been ruined at the end, I wouldn’t rated this book higher (even
though the writing was too simplistic for my taste) and added Jack to my book
boyfriend list.
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