Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

DNF at 25%. I had heard such great things about Penny Reid's books. The premise of this book seemed so great, light, funny and beards and all! So it was like a slap in the face to realize that Truth or Beard is yet another romance book where sexual assault and slutshaming is romanticized. Jessica is ridiculously naive and juvenile in her actions and thoughts. It was Duane however whom I hated. He pretends to be his brother Beau, engages in a sexual situation with Jess and when the thing blows up in his face, what does he do? He basically blames Jess about the whole thing, physically holds her down and tells her to calm down, when Jess is rightfully pissed. Because apparently it's still the woman's role in situations like this to calmly take part in a reasonable conversation about what just happened and take part of the blame. I was just so incensed about this whole thing. Duane proceeds to slutshame his ex-girlfriend later on and putting Jess on a pedestral. He can't have sex with Jess, because this is a girl he's about to marry. WHAT? There's a skinny dipping scene where they are both naked and Duane warms Jess up by hugging her without asking for a permission in a situation where Jess is obviously mad at him. Eww. For some reason it was the emergence of some ridiculous biker sideplot that made me drop the book, I just couldn't anymore. I hear there's skinheads later on, isn't that just peachy. So I hated the book, just HATED it. Authors just shouldn't write this kind of cr*p in this day and age.