I enjoyed this title so much! I thought the plot was so intriguing, and the characterization very strong! The description used by the author was so evocative I felt transported, and I kept turning until the very last page. I think the cover is very cute - I'll be sure to purchase this for my store!

Thank you Sourcebooks Casablanca for a copy of Bad Bachelor by Stefanie London to review.

I loved Bad Bachelor, it was a fun read and I loved how it explored the concept of an online reputation and how that can really affect your in real life persona these days. Known to be a man who enjoys ladies but not relationships, Reed suddenly finds himself with a bad rating on the Bad Bachelor site. Bad Bachelor's is a site where women can anonymously rate their experiences with men so other women can be warned off. Reed has never had a real life complaint but suddenly finds himself rated number one on the Bad Bachelor site and his career as a PR specialist suffers because of it. Darcy is a librarian who is working with Reed to build her library's outreach potential and finds herself falling for the Bad Bachelor. Is he really as bad as the website says?

This one was cute, I loved the struggle they both had with reputations and how that affected their feelings or how they acted on them. They had a lot of fun banter and I liked how they both stood their ground and asked for what they wanted, The communication in this relationship really worked for me and I can't wait to read more by the author.

I would rate this book 3.5 out of 5 stars.

This was a fun hate to love romance.

The only downside to this book for me is that the main female character, Darcy, falls into the 'not like other girls' trope. Darcy is constantly 'othering' herself because she likes books, eats burgers and has tattoos. This got pretty old pretty quickly.

Having said that, I really did enjoy the romance between Darcy and Reed. I love two prickly characters who can't get along slowly giving into their mutual attraction. This story really did well with that storyline.

I will be checking out the future books in the series.

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. But 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.
This was a decent read. It was light and quick to read. The characters were likable and the overall plot was good. I recommend.
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This was my first Stefanie London book and I really enjoyed it. I'm a huge enemies to lovers fan so this was right up my alley.
Darcy and Reed were very different characters, Darcy was just looking for someone to help her library get a few more books and funding for extracurricular activities, while reed is a PR consultant with a personal PR nightmare going on. Yet together they seemed to bring out the best of eachother.
I was expecting a cute light fluffy read and while this book was all that it was deeper than I expected. Both Darcy and Reed project these tough personas, hiding who they really are. It was nice seeing these two get under each other skin and find out who they really are hidden under layers of snark, good looks, an expensive suit, or all black clothing and tattoos. This book also brought the heat with some great steamy moments.
While this story has a plot twist that could be seen from a mile away, I still enjoyed the characters, the hilarious banter and the sweet romance.

A funny and cute enemies to lovers' story. I had fun during the whole book

I loved how Darcy and Reed are all about labels on each other, but once they start to know the one other down to core, they see there's more than surface.

I liked the whole situation about the reviews on app. It's how they said; how can we know which of those women were really with Reed?

“It’s all just labels, isn’t it? Such a human thing to do: we love putting people into tidy, little boxes.”

I always enjoy enemies to lovers stories and this is a really fun one!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

I enjoyed the book and read the entire thing in one sitting. It was fun and an easy read for sure. It didn't blow me away though. It fell into every cliche that books of this nature tend to fall into, and while that didn't bother me, its for that reason that I can't rate the book higher. It was an enjoyable read, but not necessarily one I would rave about.

I didn't like the main female protagonists insistent on being against anything girly. It's an old 'not like other girls' trope that drives me insane. We get that she was interesting and loved tattoos etc but I don't see why she had to bag on 'girly' things.

The male love interest was cliched but fun. The banter between the two main characters was written well and I enjoyed the tension between them.

Enemies to friends to lovers story. This one featured a story element that just rubbed me wrong: a Boyfriend app in the story existed for women to dish on the boyfriends they’ve had. For me, it was a horrifying glimpse into a future of even less privacy than we have now. It’s funny how one thing can turn a person from a boom. They characters are good, there are funny moments, but I just could t get past that app.

***Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***

A pretty run of the mill enemies-to-lovers romance. Leans heavily on the bad boy to good guy trope. Though I did not finish this, I could tell that this was not very different from others that I have read.

A few years ago, there was talk of creating an app where you could rate people-- like Yelp. It was going to be called "Peeple." There was a lot of criticism about it, and ultimately, the app never launched.

This book follows a similar idea: what if you could review men and rate your experiences with them. However, like Yelp, people have started to game the system and leave fake reviews for slights found outside of the dating realm. It's an interesting idea that I am sure is going to become a new trope in romance novels, much in the same way that "You've Got Mail" changed the online correspondence trope.

The novel follows Librarian Darcy and PR master Reed as they work together to try and create a fundraiser for the public library. Reed has issues with the Library as a concept (I found the reason why to be a little shallow to be honest, I was expecting a more climactic reason) and Darcy has read Reeds horrible reviews on an app that rates him as a romantic prospect.

Reed was hoping the reviews would go away, that it would blow over, but it isn't and he has to do some damage control or risk losing his job. Darcy just wants to move on from her failed engagement and get her traditional mother off her back.

Overall, the book is an engaging read, the characters are likable and the side characters are not two dimensional.

My main criticism of the book is in this line: "As far as she was concerned, sports belonged with salads in that they could be classified as stupid things she refused to partake in."

Frankly, it's needlessly judgy and comes out of nowhere. As a line, it provides nothing to the character development and does not make me think Darcy is endearing. It took me right out of the story and what was otherwise a fun scene in a bar. When female characters hate sports and salads, it doesn't make them relate-able, it just makes me think they think they are better than other people for not liking popular things.

Bad bachelors in New York are ranked on a new app and Reed is at the very bottom meaning he gets around and isn’t a possible long-term love, at least according to the app. Darcy is a librarian and would in no way ever pay attention to Reed, however, she needs help saving her library and he can help.

This is a great version of one of my favorite romance book tropes: enemies to lovers. Both of the characters are easy to love and root for a romance together. I enjoyed the slow burn throughout the book but think that it was a little slow at some points. Overall, still a cute romcom.

I enjoyed this story. The plot was unique and well done. I loved the dialogue between Reed and Darcy; that was probably my favorite part of the book.

I had a lot of expectations going into this one based on that cute cover and premise, and I think that has led to my disappointment. Reed, a PR whiz has become the lowest rated bachelor on the Bad Bachelors app, and that is ruining his business. He doesn't deny that he's not a commitment person, but the app has caused a lot of problems for him and he needs to fix his image now.
Darcy is a librarian who has her own set of issues and when Reed comes strolling in and offers to help her struggling library, she find its difficult to trust, but she's not going to turn away help when it's necessary. As they start to work with each other, she gets to see the person beyond his image and makes her wonder whether he's the right man for her?

This was really cute read with great characters, but it just wasn't anything beyond that. There wasn't much that set it apart from the other contemporary romance books. It didn't wow me like I'd expected it to and I felt like I could put it down at any time and forget about it. I think I will give the rest of the series a try, but I'm not going to go in with any expectations.

I was looking forward to reading this during the pandemic and it did not disappoint. It’s a sexy and witty story about Darcy and Reid. Great for anyone looking to pick up their next rom-com.

❤️❤️❤️ out of 5
I wanted to like this book more than I did 🤷🏻‍♀️. I’ve already read the second book which I quite enjoyed but this one fell a little short of that one.

Our hero makes himself known in the worst possible way- a new app that lets women rate men has him rated as the worst of the worst. Our heroine hires him to help with a fundraiser for her library and even knowing he’s supposed to be bad with a capital B she can’t help the attraction and the slivers of the man hidden beneath the facade he presents to the word.

This book almost felt like it dragged for me 🤷🏻‍♀️. I didn’t ever feel like I just had to read it to find out what happened next. The characters were both ok and their journey was good but at the end of the day this book was just ok 🤷🏻‍♀️.

There were definitely some fun moments in here and I enjoyed the chemistry between Darcy and Reid a lot, but ultimately this book wasn't super memorable for me and it doesn't feel like the premise of an app to rate bachelors is aging well as fun as it is.

I love Bad Bachelor because its funny and witty and sexy! Its a perfect blend of lighthearted rom com fair with a little bit of angst peppered by a dash of emotional development and hotness. The use of an app to rate those bachelors out there reflects the real world dynamics in dating but also kind of makes you think whether an app is really enough to make any judgement about anyone. Darcy and Reed definitely stole my heart with their opposite attract romance but it also delves into how these are more similar than anyone can guess. Bad Bachelor was a definite page turner for me!

To start, I wasn't aware when I picked this up on NetGalley that it was a re-release of a book that initially published two years ago. That's fine, all well and good, but it would have been nice to know.
The premise is one that's been pretty thoroughly explored in romance since then: an app to rate men on the dating scene. Predictably, everyone learns that anonymous ratings can be negatively influenced by people with ulterior motives or grudges.
This would have been fine if the hero wasn't a rich guy. It's really hard to feel bad for rich people right now, even if they have an ill, stubborn father. The father very much felt like a prop to humanize the hero, who would have otherwise been unlikeable.
The librarian heroine was great and I had hoped that my like of her would carry me through, but it didn't.

I suspect that if you haven't already read three of these "rate the date" books, you'll like this one, but I've read it too many times and got bored. (This isn't fair to the book, surely, since it was originally published before the others I've read.)

This is the first book I have read from Stefanie London and it will not be the last! I loved this book so much and thought the story line was pretty unique. I loved Reed and Darcy and found myself really rooting for them!