Review: Bad Bachelor by Stefanie London

Posted March 7, 2019 by Rowena in Reviews | 1 Comment

Review: Bad Bachelor by Stefanie LondonReviewer: Rowena
Bad Bachelor (Bad Bachelors, #1) by Stefanie London
Series: Bad Bachelors #1
Also in this series: Bad Reputation (Bad Bachelors, #2)
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: March 6, 2018
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased
Point-of-View: Alternating Third
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 384
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Reading Challenges: Rowena's 2019 GoodReads Challenge, Rowena's 2019 New to Me Challenge
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three-half-stars
Series Rating: two-stars

Everybody’s talking about the hot new app reviewing New York’s most eligible bachelors. But why focus on prince charming when you can read the latest dirt on the lowest-ranked “Bad Bachelors”—NYC’s most notorious bad boys.

If one more person mentions Bad Bachelors to Reed McMahon, someone’s gonna get hurt. A PR whiz, Reed is known as an ‘image fixer’ but his womanizing ways have caught up with him. What he needs is a PR miracle of his own.

When Reed strolls into Darcy Greer’s workplace offering to help save the struggling library, she isn’t buying it. The prickly Brooklynite knows Reed is exactly the kind of guy she should avoid. But the library does need his help. As she reluctantly works with Reed, she realizes there’s more to a man than his reputation. Maybe, just maybe, Bad Bachelor #1 is THE one for her.

I read this book last week and needed to sit on my thoughts for a little bit because though I enjoyed the romance between Reed and Darcy, this book is problematic as hell and more than once, things that happened and people that are introduced pissed me off so much that I had to keep walking away and coming back because I wanted to punch a bitch in her fucking rat face.

So this series follows three friends as they fall in love with the men from the Bad Bachelor’s App. The Bad Bachelor’s App is an app that was created for the women of New York to rate and review their exes. It’s kind of like a Yelp for the Men of New York. It was created as a way for women to rate and review the men of New York. To warn other women against the bad guys and give thumbs up for the good ones.

Reed McMahon is a PR Rep for one of the big PR firms in New York. His job is to turn his client’s image around when they’re down in the dumps and he’s worked his ass off to be one of the top reps for his firm. He’s good at what he does and he’s made a good life for himself working there. He dates a lot but hasn’t settled down and honestly has no plans on settling down with anyone. He’s got his reasons for this and those reasons are pretty legit reasons but did that matter to the women that reviewed him on the Bad Bachelor’s App? Nope. Not one bit. Reed is annoyed that his personal life has been made the topic of girls night out dinners all over New York but it’s an annoyance that he can ignore…until it starts creeping into every aspect of his life. Until it starts messing with his work, with his family, and the new relationship that he didn’t even know he wanted. When he starts working with a local librarian to try to save the library that she works for, as a favor to his assistant, things really heat up for Reed.

Darcy is working with Reed to save her library from ruin. She needs to raise money to save programs, to fix up the building and everything else that comes with working at a public library. She’s busy enough as it is, she doesn’t need to be attracted to the more notorious bachelor in the city but the more time she spends with Reed, the more she starts to realize that maybe Bad Bachelor’s got it wrong this time around. Reed isn’t the person that these women are reviewing. He’s so much more than that and the more she gets to know him, the worse she feels for the way that the app is messing with his life.

I will say that London’s writing style is easy to follow along with because I really enjoyed the romance that blossomed between Darcy and Reed. I enjoyed getting to know them on their own and seeing them get to know each other. Their relationship blossomed in a believable way and I was happy to see them develop feelings for each other. Sure, they weren’t perfect but to me, not being perfect is actually pretty perfect but as much as I enjoyed these two and seeing them fall for each other, I had such a hard time with the whole Bad Bachelor thing.

It took me so long to read this book because I kept having to walk away from the story to calm my ass down because of the whole thing with Reed and the Bad Bachelor App. Without giving too much away, Reed finds out who is behind the app when the app started messing with his life. It’s never mentioned that Reed was a cheater or that he abused any of the women that he slept with. He never even lied to these women. He was upfront about what they were doing and so I thought it was pretty unfair that his life was flipped upside down because of hurt feelings. So Reed finds out who’s behind the app and the lack of remorse that she showed Reed and the shitshow his life became because of her app left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I didn’t like the way that that part of the story ended and because of that, it tainted my enjoyment of the overall story.

It always comes back to this for me…

Your crappy childhood isn’t an excuse to be a crappy person. Your crappy luck with relationships isn’t an excuse to be a crappy person. Your crappy experiences aren’t an excuse to be a crappy person. We all have our crap, and you can either let it define you or grow from it.

I’m just about done with the second book in this series and I don’t even know how I’m going to get through book 3 because ugh, the shitty shit show is still going strong and the woman behind it all just keeps getting deeper and deeper on my shit list. So while the romance was pretty great and the characters were wonderful, the Bad Bachelors app is a huge part of this story and that shit was not okay with me so I can’t give this book more than 3 stars. I just can’t do it.

Grade: 3 out of 5

Bad Bachelors

three-half-stars


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One response to “Review: Bad Bachelor by Stefanie London

  1. Kareni

    I started this book but did not finish it. I have to agree that I didn’t care for the app aspect of the story either. It reminds me of cyber bullying.

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