I went into this book with high hopes and those hopes fell flat. I wanted to like this book and I did at parts and then other parts, not so much. There was also a lot, and I mean a lot, of curse words in this book and while I don’t mind a word here and there, the amount here threw me. Overall, I liked the concept, I just wish it was executed differently.

Thank you NetGalley & McMillan Audio for an eARC of the audiobook for Good Girl Complex, by Elle Kennedy.

Mac is new to Avalon Bay. When she meets one of the beautiful Hartley twins, Cooper, she knows he’s trouble. But little does she know that Cooper has placed her into his sights, as part of a revenge plot against Mac’s boyfriend.

Honestly, I love me anything by Elle Kennedy, and while this book wasn’t my forte, I still enjoyed it and don’t have any outright negative comments! The plot was a bit generic, and I agree with other reviews that it’s highly similar to Anna Todd’s After Series. The revenge plot with the good girl, bad boy, and early college angst just wasn’t that original. The plot was rather predictable, and I thought it felt a bit too dragged out with the additional sub-plot lines later in the story. It took til about the last 30% of the book to be different and more interesting, but at that point, the romance was just getting dragged on.

In terms of the audiobook, I LOVED the narrators! cooper was edgy and the emotion Joe Arden portrayed had me actually choking up at time! Ava Erickson has such a sweet, light voice, that is so innocent to fit Mac’s ‘Good Girl’ character.

Overall, while this wasn’t my cup of tea, I’d give it a 3.5/5 review. My opinion fell very halfway on the book, but the narrators gave it a bump up. So audiobook? 4. Actual book/plot? 3.

This has been my honest review

Thank you Net Galley for an audio ARC of Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy. I love this authors books! This is a relationship between Mac and Cooper and it all starts on a lie.

Mackenzie Cabot is a trust fund baby who used her gap year to startup a multimillion-dollar website and app. But her billionaire parents and trust fund boyfriend Preston (is it Preston or Prescott? Who can keep these pretentious clones straight?) seem to think it's just a fun little side project and now she needs to go to college to learn to be the trophy wife she is destined to be.

Cooper Hartley is a rough and tumble local bad boy who moonlights as a bartender. When Preston (Prescott?) saunters into Cooper's bar and forces himself on Cooper's waitress friend, Cooper kicks his ass....for which he is promptly fired, because of course the Preston/Prescotts of the world insist upon it and don't care whose lives they have to destroy to get it. Cooper and his friends quickly hatch a scheme to get even with the pretentious twit - steal his trust fund girlfriend.

Highly enjoyable. Full of class warfare, smashing the patriarchy, giving it to the man, plus romance, guilt and recriminations.