Title: Disorderly Conduct
Author: Tessa Bailey
Series: The Academy #1
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Avon
Pub Date: August 29, 2017
Pages: 354
My Copy: Courtesy of Edelweiss and Avon Books
Book Summary:
ou don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…
Police academy cadet Charlie Burns can’t believe his luck when the gorgeous blonde he meets in a bar murmurs those magic words: “Nothing serious, ’kay?” Mind-blowing, no-strings sex with Ever Carmichael—it’s the holy grail of hookups for a guy who’s too busy following in his law enforcement family’s footsteps to think about getting serious. Charlie’s all about casual…that is, until Ever calls it quits and his world tilts on its axis.
Ever knows that when you control the relationship game, you can’t get played. But for the first time, she wants more than short-term satisfaction. Step one: end her fling with commitment-phobic Charlie. Step two: sacrifice herself to the ruthless NYC dating scene. Yet everywhere she turns, there’s Charlie, being his ridiculously charming self. No online match or blind date compares to the criminally hot cop-in-training, but they’re over. Aren’t they?
If love is a four-letter-word, why does the idea of Ever seeing someone else tie Charlie up in knots? Now he’s desperate to win her back…and a little date sabotage never hurt anyone, right?
Book Review:
Hot and Sexy is the best way to describe this book. I totally fell in love with Charlie and Ever. They are two individuals who don’t do relationships but find themselves wanting to spend more time together. Things progress and one of them realizes that they want something deeper and it forces the other one to reexamine things as well.
What I like about this book is that we get alternating views between both of our characters. This is nice because a lot of times we get the view point of the female character. I like how Charlie and Ever meet one another. Both of them describe the other as someone who is handsome, beautiful and both Charlie and Ever are not looking for anything serious. So things get hot and heavy right from the start of this book. Plus we get some background on both of our main characters. They both have goals in life and feel like sometimes that relationships are dangerous. You can get hurt. So they are right up front with one another. They like that about one another.
There no strings attached starts off great for the two of them, but they start to spend more time with each other when this starts to feel like enjoyment and maybe more. Things are going great in their careers too. Charlie is a police cadet at the police academy and is training hard. Plus he can’t stop thinking about Ever at times. So this is becoming more for him than he thinks. Ever is starting her own business with her roommate Nina. So they are pretty self sufficent.
Ever’s own mother and upbringing is one that is different from what most people learn growing up. Her mother says to never depend on a man. Never commit to a man because they will leave you and not to have long term relationships. They don’t work out. Yet Ever gets a disturbing phone call from her mother and it makes Ever really rethink things about relationships and what she really wants out of life. Her mother wants her to seriously think about a serious relationship and not these one night stands or an arrangement like the ones that she has had. It’s not worth it.
Yet things happen, that draw both Ever and Charlie back together despite them not being in the same kind of relationship they were in before. They agree to be friends, but Charlie has a plan to win back Ever. So things happen that neither of them expect. Also Nina has some issues of her own with a boyfriend that gets rather heated and Charlie helps out in a way that no one expects. Also we learn what makes Charlie and Ever tick in a deeper way than we first thought. I really love them both.
The evolution of both Charlie and Ever as characters and when they are together is great for the book. Plus they almost lose it because of something that one of them does, to make them see that they are right for one another. Ever’s mother gives her a piece of advice and that really makes things much clearer for her in a lot of ways. They do end up back together and realize that things are much more interesting together rather than apart. I thought the romance was very solid in this book and a great start for this series. Sometimes the person you need in your life is the person you least expect.
This was a great read. Had two very sexy individuals. I loved this book so very much. Looking ahead to see what happens in the next book with the next two characters.
Rating:
4.5 Hearts
