Title: Good Girl Complex
Author: Elle Kennedy
Genre: Romance, Chick Lit
Series: Avalon Bay
Date of Publication: February 1, 2022
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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.
- Goodreads
My Thoughts
Good Girl Complex is the first in a new series by Elle Kennedy. Garnet University reminds me a lot of Briar University, from Elle Kennedy's other new adult romance series.
To be honest, I was lukewarm about Cooper at first. But, already being a Kennedy fan, I held on, knowing that she'd manage to change my mind about him. And that she did! While Cooper is a townie and a self-proclaimed "bad boy", he's also arrogant and quite rude. His feelings of disdain towards the rich students who attend Garnet are realistic and based in almost all of his previous interactions with them. That said, his plans to have revenge on the jerk rich boy Preston who caused him to lose his job by seducing his girlfriend made for a somewhat unlikeable romance hero. That said, it's clear that Cooper starts to change his mind about his nefarious plans almost immediately after meeting her. As usual, Kennedy uses her unique writing style and impeccable banter to make Cooper a character that I could fall in love with.
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