Ames‘ review of Bad, Bad Girlfriend by Delilah Devlin
Jolene’s a big, beautiful woman with an even bigger heart. But she’s become her police officer boyfriend’s favorite doormat and that’s so not working for her. It’s time for a little conversation, time to tell Mr. Happy Pants to “pee or get off the pot”. Gabriel has seen what his profession does to marriages. He’s not willing to risk that kind of heartbreak. Besides, he likes what he has with Jolene. The woman is sex personified. So when Jolie tells him she won’t see him anymore if he’s not willing to commit, he’s shocked and angry.
With a girlfriend’s encouragement and the added confidence a certain pair of red stilettos gives her, Jolene arranges a special show at a strip club to prove to Gabe once and for all that she’s more woman than any man can handle, and if he doesn’t want the job, then she’ll find another lover who does.
Jolene is a strong, independent woman…work wise. She’s an entrepreneur, she owns a bakery/coffee shop where the local cops like to come hang out. But when it comes to Gabriel, her lover for about a year, she’s a doormat. He is emotionally distant and only uses her for sex and for meals and to get his laundry done. Eesh. He sounds like a winner.
Gabriel has a reason for his emotional distance. His father was a cop and he was there the day his mother got the news her husband died while on duty. And he saw the emotional wreck she became. He refused to put a woman through that kind of pain one day. So when his partner is shot and he sees his girlfriend Lexie worried and stressed, he’s even more persistent in keeping an emotional distance. And the shooting had the exact opposite affect on Jolene. She wants to become even closer to Gabriel and starts to ask him about moving in…maybe marriage.
Gabriel freaks out and in a bid to get him to see her in a different light, she decides to strip for him.
Yes, you read that right. Now I don’t know how that twisted logic works out for Jolene but I have to spoil it for you and say it does. Jolene is sick of Gabriel using her sexually and so to access his emotional side, she strips for him? The story was fine – but that logic ruined Bad, Bad Girlfriend for me. In the end, the strip show works and Gabriel sees the light and gives into her Jolene emotionally. Weird, just weird. Good writing though, I had to read it to the finish! LOL
3 out of 5
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This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.
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