Bad Penny, an all-new romantic comedy standalone from Staci Hart is now LIVE!
Synopsis
Nothing good comes after the third date.
See, date three is the crucial point when things get real, which is exactly why I bounce out the door, twiddling my fingers at whatever poor boy I’ve left behind. Because if I stick around, one of three things will happen: he’ll profess his undying love, he gets weird and stalky, or I’ll go crazy. Like, Sid and Nancy crazy. Like, chase-him-through-the-streets-begging-him-to-love-me crazy.
Seriously, it’s better for everyone this way.
So when I meet Bodie, I figure it’ll be the same as it ever was. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t put a single string on me. Doesn’t matter that he’s funny and smart and jacked and can play my body like a grand piano. Because even though I’m built for love, love has only carved me up like a Christmas ham.
Resistance is something I can only hang on to for so long, and he has persistence in spades. But my heart isn’t as safe as I want to believe, and neither is his. And the second I ignore my cardinal rule is the second I stand to lose him forever.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Staci Hart absolutely gutted me with A Thousand Letters, and then lifted me up with Bad Penny. This book had the perfect combination of hilarious one-liners, both sexy and sweet moments between Bodie and Penny, and a touch of drama. That meet-cute ice cream scene, and then again later in the bedroom with the ice cream cones? So hot!
Penny was so badly burned by her HS boyfriend, and the drama that’s come from her subsequent attempts at relationships, that she’s instituted a three-date rule. But a chance encounter with an old school friend leads to Penny being willing to let her three-date rule slide, as long as things with Bodie remain easy and uncomplicated. And since Bodie, who always carried a torch for Penny, doesn’t want to miss out on his one chance to have the girl of his dreams, decides to let Penny take the lead, even at the expense of his own feelings.
Bad Penny is a follow-up to Tonic — Penny is one of the tattoo artists who work at the shop. I have Tonic on my TBR list, but did not feel like there were plot holes I was missing out on since I haven’t read that book yet. That is a huge pet peeve of mine, and Staci Hart perfectly executed Bad Penny in a way that it’s a self-contained story with interconnected characters.
Penny is so relatable. She’s a free spirit, gives zero effs, and loves hard. She’s the kind of girl I wish I was when I was single! Bodie, on the other hand, is so sweet, so considerate, a kind soul and a hot surfer math geek! Penny is “a-dick-ted”! (Ha! So many laugh out loud moments!) He perfectly grounds her, and their chemistry just comes jumping off the page.
At times I wanted to smack some sense into Penny because Bodie was so perfect for her, but she just couldn’t get out of her own damn mind to see what was standing right in front of her. I felt the back-and-forth between both of them not wanting to bring up their feelings to the other grew a bit tiresome, but the HEA that was in store for Bodie and Penny was worth the wait!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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