Natward1's Reviews > Walk of Shame

Didn't finish after page 44. This book just isn't written very well. I was so confused by who penny and Peyton were. Because from the synopsis this is about a nerd, penny and a jock, Weston that fall for each other. But the book starts out with some girl named Peyton. Who isn't a nerd and the author is sure to make sure we know that she's super hot etc. but she's also supposedly smart? Or is she? She does not sound intelligent at all. She works at a bar or a diner maybe? So She isn't doing anything that shows me she's intelligent. Not that someone working at a diner isn’t smart, but the author needs to character build. She needs to have her character saying or doing things that make me feel like she in fact is very intelligent. She’s just written so average. Which would be fine if the book wasnt telling us that she is super intelligent but showing us something different. But then who is this penny girl? I had to come to the reviews to see what characters I'm supposed to be following and it turns out that penny is really Peyton in disguise. Okay so now I'm mad because the synopsis says this would be about a "nerd" and a jock getting together but it's not. It's about two hot people that get together. Typical cliche romance. And the way it's written is not drawing me in at all. Like I said, I was confused about what was going on and who the main characters were. Like, what is peyton doing when she's in disguise and tutoring Weston? Why is she in disguise? She says she's working on her thesis and that Weston is part of her thesis but in what way? What is she trying to prove or do? All she's doing is tutoring him. I know her thesis has to do with feminism or something like that. But The author does not make this clear but she also doesn't make it clear that it's something we arent supposed to know at this point either. We will probably find out as the story goes along but just the way it's written isn't making me connect to the story. I need to know what's going on to a point so I can be drawn in. . I just really have no idea what this book is even about. It starts out with hot Peyton wanting approval to do a thesis at a new school, then all of the sudden in the next chapter she's apparently in the middle of this thesis she was just talking about starting and we don't even know it's actually Peyton either at this point. It's just all of the sudden these 2 other characters, penny and Weston. Then it goes to Weston meeting Peyton and their meeting is just not sweet or cute or angsty or indifferent or any other interesting thing. It's just lame. Peyton is kinda bitchy and Weston is smirky and cocky and obnoxious and the story is all just so jumbled. But the real deal breaker is that I don't like Peyton/penny. She knows she's hot. She says so several times. She's not friendly or warm or kind or anything. At one point she gets mad at Weston because she thought he was being an ass for a reason I can't even remember and literally in the next paragraph she says this about herself "yeah, I can be an ass myself. I'm allowed." Oh my hell! What the!!!?????? Is this author for real with her. Hypocrite much! Plus it just reinforces my poor opinion of her. She's pushy and uptight and un-fun. She complains about everyone including her current boyfriend. And oh here's a shocker! Her current boyfriend doesn't please her sexually. The author makes sure to emphasize this part. So now I know the author was trying really hard to give us a set up in where the reader shouldn't like the current boyfriend and then we know that Weston will then be the one to be able to please her sexually. Another romance novel cliche. Oh here's another cliche...Weston feels that Peyton is different from any other girl he's ever met. And he just doesn't know why he thinks she's so different because they've only exchanged like 10 words! Yeah guess what Weston? The reader doesn't know why either! It just isn't believable. The author cannot just have the guy tell us that he thinks the girl is different and have us just buy it. At least not this reader. I need way more substance in a book. I never take anything at face value. I need to see why he'd find her different. Especially when I find her obnoxious. And totally unlikeable. Sorry Weston but if you've talked to her for 30 seconds there isn't a way that u should be able to feel anything about his girl besides maybe initial attraction. Which of course he does that too because this is a cliche romance novel so that has to be in here. I think I just felt a little tricked by the synopsis. This isn't about two opposites falling for each other. Again, its 2 hot people who go to the same parties and act the same way falling in love. And Here was a part in the book that I straight laughed out loud at, and not in a good way: 'He(Weston monologuing) loved a pussy that clenched his cock. And Leanne's pc muscle was phenomenal.' Hahaha Oh brother!! That is just not pleasantly written. Of course every guy likes it tight but don't write it that way, especially because he was talking about his friend who had had sex with the same girl as him and his friend was complaining about this girls "pc" muscle squeezing him too tight. Oh man I'm sorry I am just cringing at this writing. Anyways I just need this book to have more focus and direction. It's too all over the place and I don't like the characters.