TITLE: THE GOOD GIRL COMPLEX
AUTHOR: ELLE KENNEDY
GENRE: NEW ADULT
PUBLICATION: FEBRUARY 01ST, 2022
Synopsis
She does everything right. So what could go wrong?
Mackenzie "Mac" Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents' insistence. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College.
Mac's had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. Cooper is rough around the edges. Raw. Candid. A threat to her ordered existence. Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life.
Despite his disdain for the trust-fund kids he sees coming and going from his town, Cooper soon realizes Mac isn't just another rich clone and falls for her. Hard. But as Mac finally starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the secret he's been keeping from her threatens the only place she's ever felt at home.
Mackenzie "Mac" Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents' insistence. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College.
Mac's had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. Cooper is rough around the edges. Raw. Candid. A threat to her ordered existence. Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life.
Despite his disdain for the trust-fund kids he sees coming and going from his town, Cooper soon realizes Mac isn't just another rich clone and falls for her. Hard. But as Mac finally starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the secret he's been keeping from her threatens the only place she's ever felt at home.
My Review
After doing a wee bit of digging his close group of friends concoct a plan to take the guy down a peg or two by stealing his girlfriend out from under him.
'I'm angry and bitter and itching for blood. Besides, I'd be doing this chick a favour rescuing her from Kincaid.'
Enter twenty year old self made millionaire Mackenzie, she's been dating her boyfriend Preston Kincaid for four years, even though they ran in the same circle since they were kids.
Lately Mackenzie has felt stifled, from her controlling parents to her predictable boyfriend.
Meeting Cooper he awakens something within her, and once Cooper gets to really know Mackenzie and realises she's nothing like his preconceived thoughts about her type but has no idea how he's going to stop this plan from going ahead.
This took me no time at all to read, small town rich college girl falls for the bad boy around the quant sea side town of Avalon Bay, as rule of thumb the 'Clones' and the 'Locals' do not mix generally.
I also loved how how there wasn’t one of them, but two of them, twins to be exact, (The Hartley Twins) so I kind of hope Evan gets his own story.
This was a cute when opposites attract, slow burn read which wrung all those Elle feels out of me which I haven’t felt for a while from this author. Not an overabundance of angst which is what this author usually gives us, but just enough to add some spice to it.
