Title: Dirty Exes
Series: Liars, Inc. Book #1
Stand Alone Title: yes
Author: Rachel Van Dyken
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
Blurb: Blaire has never quite gotten over Jessie Beckett, the ex–NFL star whose kisses were hot enough to ignite the entire Eastern Seaboard. When he chose work over her, Blaire was left brokenhearted. Why else would she have married a skeezy two-timer, just to divorce him less than a year later?
Now Blaire is getting even by becoming one half of Dirty Exes, a PI firm fully committed to humiliating cheating jerks. If only the new jerk she’s been hired to uncover wasn’t Jessie Beckett himself.
Exposing Jessie isn’t going to be easy, especially when she still daydreams about his sexy smile. Further complicating matters is Colin, Jessie’s best friend. He’s gorgeous, a little bit cunning, and willing to help Blaire get the inside scoop on Jessie—for a price.
Now caught between two men—one totally right and the other totally wrong—Blaire will need to decide just how much she’s willing to risk…and whom she’s willing to risk it for.
Favorite quote(s): “The life of a celebrity. God, can you even pee by yourself, or do camera flashes just beckon your penis?”
Thoughts: I wasn’t a fan of this book, which was shocking to me as I usually enjoy Rachel Van Dyken. There were so many little things that were wrong with it, that I just got nothing out of reading it. I felt like this was a waste of time to read for me. While Rachel is about 35 years old, it didn’t come across in the reading, particularly with the maturity level. She still had that much younger vibe, and mixed with her singlemindedness on catching out cheaters – and her inability to question herself and challenge her own beliefs with an open mind, just turned me off her character completely. It doesn’t take long before you kind of see where the story is going either – the ‘triangle’ becomes pretty apparent. But so does the fact that I just never got the true vibe that Jessie was in the running as a contender for Blaire’s heart – which to me, made Jessie completely unimportant in the storyline. He didn’t even seem like a character introduced to cause conflict. To be honest, I felt a bit angry that I was wasting time on characters that served no purpose. Not even as characters I would want to see again in future books. I couldn’t have felt less of a connection with this book. To me it seemed very thrown-together and disjointed.
Just not a recommended read from me – the only reason I’m not rating it lower is simply due to curiosity alone. I had to read to at least finish and see if things finished the way I imagine it was going to. I DO, however, recommend many other books by this author!
Rating: C
