The Wrong Kind of Love (The Boys of Jackson Harbor #1)

First off, be warned that the male lead character describes himself, repetitively, as an @$$h0!e. Yep. He\’s THAT guy. My question is, why would anyone write a main character in a romance novel as this type of man? I\’ll give the author points for consistency. Ethan can\’t seem but help himself, accusing his potential love of promiscuous thoughts almost the entire book; fortunately, he gets the opportunity to be truly self-righteous at the climax, allowing him to truly overreact. I was glad to see that there was no domestic violence portrayed, only to be disgusted by the fact that I felt that about characters in a romance novel. This tempered by the fact that our heroine, Nic, almost doesn\’t exist. She doesn\’t evolve at all through the entire book (which is kind of incredible, considering this plot). She forgives every transgression so quickly it seems ridiculous that she was angered to begin with. Every decision is made for her. A true doormat, but it distracts us from her would-be partner\’s behavior. The book is well-written, but feels almost insidious in how it depicts Ethan\’s behavior as acceptable or even normal. I don\’t know how the author could have overlooked these questionable behaviors, but because of then, I just can\’t recommend this.

The Wrong Kind of Love by Lexi Ryan is the first book in her brand new series, The Boys of Jackson Harbor . Told in dual POV between Nicole, the twin running away from an almost wedding disaster, and Ethan, the hot guy in the bar AND her new boss. While the synopsis is funny in an epic disaster kind of way, the overall emotion of the book is romance, angst, and love with a side of humor. Nicole is shaken to the core by her sister\’s betrayal. A little less shaken by the betrayal of her almost husband. Leaving the state with her sisters purse instead of her own by mistake, she ends up taking her sisters flight to Michigan leaving her gossipy town of Jeffe, Alabama in her dust. Ethan has been at a standstill since his wife\’s death. When his mother insists on helping him hire a nanny so she can go on vacation, a lifelong dream of travelling through Europe, he relents. He lets her handle all the details. When he sees a beautiful woman at his brothers bar one night, her eyes looking just as sad as he feels inside something clicks for him with her like it hasn\’t once since his wife passed. Pretending to be her twin sister, taking the job that Veronica had lined up to nanny for three months, Nicole is beyond shocked when he mystery man from the bar that brought her pleasure beyond anything she\’s ever known turns out to be her new boss. Well written and well paced this was a wonderful story or love, healing, family, and fate. Next up: Straight Up Love and Dirty, Reckless Love. Enjoy!

I liked this book. Good storyline. The female lead fell short of my expectation. She was portrayed as a weak women. Yet, she has been through so much and I did not feel she learned anything from her experiences. For example, her sister deserved her scorn. She forgave too easily. She didn\’t make Veronica work for it. So, because of that I couldn\’t rate this book higher than 3 stars.

Heroine was a total doormat and spineless. After her sister betrays her in the worst way she doesn\’t cut her sister out of her life, instead she continues to call her sister. After her employer labels her an \”easy screw\” and tells her he is replacing her ASAP, she continues to pursue him and accommodates him in every way. I think he is a total bad bet as he keeps everything in the house just like his dead wife left things, including all her clothes in the closet.

It was a good read, but not my favorite by far, so that\’s why the 3 star rating. The story line had promise: family drama, evil and good twin sisters, a big family of 4 super hot brothers plus a really likeable sister. Ethan\’s character has all the right ingredients to make him your next-fictional boyfriend : he is a doctor, mature, down to earth and a lovable father. It\’s Nicole\’s character I had the most trouble relating to. I\’m sorry but after all that happen to her you would think she grow a spine and tell her sister to bite off and there sits the whole reason why after Veronica comes back into the story somewhat with her tail between her legs I almost gave up and didn\’t finish the freaking book. But my mamma didn\’t raise no quitter, so I put my big girl panties and kept on reading until the lighthouse scene …geezuss talk about cliche….

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