Rowena’s review of Good for You (Between the Lines #3) by Tammara Webber.
Reid Alexander’s celebrity life is an open book. Every relationship, every error in judgment is analyzed by strangers. His latest mistake totaled his car, destroyed a house and landed him in the hospital. As his PR team works overtime to salvage his image, one thing is clear—this is one predicament he won’t escape without paying for it.
Dori Cantrell is a genuine humanitarian—the outward opposite of everything Reid represents. When his DUI plea bargain lands him under her community service supervision, she proves unimpressed with his status and indifferent to his proximity, and he soon wants nothing more than to knock her off of her pedestal and prove she’s human.
Counting the days until his month of service ends, Dori struggles to ignore Reid’s wicked pull while challenging him to recognize his own wasted potential. But Dori has secrets of her own, safely locked away until one night turns her entire world upside down. Suddenly their only hope for connection and redemption hinges on one choice: whether or not to have faith in each other.
This is book three in the Between the Lines series by Tammara Webber. This book follows the superstar Reid Alexander as he is finally humbled. In the first two books, Reid has been a whirlwind of bad decisions and his latest bad decision has landed him in jail with a DUI and is sentenced to do community service for the property damage that he’s done. On his first day there, he meets the girl that will change his world forever.
Dori Cantrell is the daughter of a pastor and is the complete opposite of Reid’s type. She doesn’t have time to go out and club it up until the wee hours of the morning. She’s busy with charity work and her volunteering efforts all over the world. She’s so busy that she doesn’t have the time or the inclination to babysit the spoiled superstar that is working on the Habitat for Humanity house that they’re working on right now. Right off the bat, Dori doesn’t like Reid. She doesn’t like his selfish personality, she doesn’t like his flirty attitude and she doesn’t like…him. But she will admit that he’s hot.
Reid, on the other hand isn’t a fan of Dori’s either. She’s a self-righteous do-gooder that thinks her shit doesn’t stink. He’s there to work, not be subjected to her constant dislike for his every breath but even he can’t figure out why he can’t get her out of his mind.
They shouldn’t have suited one another but the longer they work together, the more that they start to…like each other. Nobody is more surprised them the both of them when they realize the extent of their attraction to each other. Opposites really do attract.
When I started this book, I was a bit disappointed that Emma and Graham weren’t in it. In fact, it took me quite a while to get over the fact that Graham and Emma weren’t front and center in this book because I really came to like them in the other books. I wasn’t ready to say good bye to them and I wasn’t ready to meet new characters. But when I got over that and gave Dori a chance, she really came alive for me. I liked her and thought she was pretty perfect for Reid. I wasn’t sure how I was going to end up liking her because she was one of those do-gooder characters who spent quite a bit of time doing volunteer work. She was the kind of person that made me feel like a terrible person because I don’t live to serve the community the way that she does. And she’s a pastor’s kid so I thought she was going to be a prude. But man, Dori was anything but. I mean, she was a do-gooder and she did make me feel bad about myself but she was also really fun.
Don’t get me wrong, there were times when I wanted to punch her in the throat because of things she’d say to Reid or things she’d think about Reid but when all was said and done, I really liked her character. She was a good influence on Reid and she really brought out the good part of Reid that Emma saw. Seeing Reid come into his own made me all gooey inside. I really came to adore him and I was glad when he started using his head, instead of making a mess of his life.
This was another great book from Tammara Webber. I didn’t like it as much as I liked the last book but it was still a solid read. Reid and Dori’s story was cute, fun and funny. All the things that I like in a book so I’m not complaining at all. I’m also pretty stoked to read the next book…it’s going to be interesting to see Brooke’s story….especially since the last time I saw her, I didn’t like her at all. But if I’ve learned anything, Webber does a great job of redeeming characters that I didn’t care for and I know that she’ll do the same with Brooke’s character. I definitely recommend this book.
Grade: 4 out of 5
This book is available from Tammara Webber. You can purchase it here or here in e-format.
