He Loves You Not by Tara BrownMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
DNF at 49%.
Lacey Winters is the poor girl who hangs out with the uber-rich kids (can anyone say Gossip Girl?). When her little brother is diagnosed with cancer her college tuition fund is earmarked for his treatment and she needs to find a way to earn more money, over and above what she gets interning for her BFF's father. So she cooks up a great scheme to test girls' boyfriends anonymously.
Jordan Somersby is the archetypal poor little rich boy, bullied by his father into 'dating' the daughter of a client in an attempt to create some kind of dynastic merger he meets Lacey at a party on a yacht, she has no idea who he is and they really connect, until she discovers he is yet another spoilt, entitled rich boy with a girlfriend trying to score on the side.
I have to admit part of the blame for this is on me, I just saw Tara Brown was the author and auto-requested without reading the blurb carefully. My tolerance for YA/NA novels decreases year by year, I find them irritating and banal and full of unpleasant characters. Sadly, this was no exception. Lacey's BFF Marcia was vacuous, ignorant and obnoxious. The talk was all about parties and clothes and hair. The girls routinely call each other names as terms of endearment. Jordan seemed to be weak-willed and a bit of a personality vacuum.
By nearly half-way through the book the plot had yet to actually develop and I lost patience. I'm sorry because I loved Tara Brown's Single Lady Spy novels, but obviously her NA/YA books are not for me.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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