Unintentional Virgin by A.J. Bennett
Book Summary -
Book provided through Netgalley for an honest review.
Length - 203 Pages (DNF at 50)
Published by - A.J. Bennett
My Rating - 1 Star
Blurb
Karma Points is cursed. Cursed with a stupid name and the inability to lose her virginity. She's on a mission to lose her virginity before she turns twenty if it's the last thing she does.
One night, her good friend Eva brings her to an underground club where Karma meets a tattooed bouncer. He’s far from the clean-cut type she normally falls for, which makes her think this finally might be the night she crosses the threshold of womanhood.
Excited, she goes home with the bouncer named Jax and as always, her dreams crash down once again. Jax cannot believe she is willing to give away her virginity to a stranger she met at a club. As the only son with five sisters and a widowed mom, he can't morally go through with it, even though he's never been more tempted in his life.
Unwilling to let her walk away he strikes a deal. Karma has to spend three weeks dating him and then decide if she wants to have sex or walk away.
Review
Ohhhhhh, where to begin? The fact that I didn’t finish 50 pages in or the lackluster and spectacularly annoying characters?
Lets see...Firstly, Karma Points isn’t cursed. Oh no, she is damnably, bloody annoying. Infuriatingly immature for an almost 20 year old, she behaves more like a fifteen year old. She is ignorant, self-involved and so narcissistic that it made even me aware of it!
They say that ignorance is bliss, well if I was as ignorant and blissful as Karma, then maybe I could’ve enjoyed this book, or at least been able to read it all the way through to the end. The fact that her BFF (and quite possibly, ONLY friend other than her father and father’s boy-toy!) didn’t even know she was a virgin shows me that this book wasn’t thought out real well.
Then once we’ve dissed on Mummy dearest and announced that we’ve been in therapy since the beginning of time because of parental issues (no surprise really when Daddy turned out to be gay and Mummy is a self-involved Bikini/lingerie model - gah!) as well as chased around the poorly treated pet dog, Princess, we’re on to meeting the main man of the hour - Jax.
As first interactions go, this one was a doozy. No, no, not in that instant attraction, primal awareness kind of way, this was one EPIC fail. No chemistry, no pull. Nothing. Zip, zilch...nada. Unless you count Karma making some comment about the bouncer smiling. Seriously, insert over exaggerated eye roll right here!!! If a bouncer’s smiling, then darling, he’s not going to be good at his job, which is to look intimidating and lethal. Duh!
So after nothing happening with the guy that will end up being the love of her life (I presume since I didn’t finish.) we then go through a myriad of whiplash. From scoping out potential hotties at the bar to considering becoming a nun and buying a chastity belt. She hasn’t even spoken to anyone and she’s already ready to throw in the towel. Does she realize that her cherry isn’t going to magically be popped? She’s desperate (supposedly) to lose her virginity, yet so far, I haven’t seen her even try and do anything about it.
Then she’s abandoned by Eva and starts sulking that her BFF doesn’t want to help her...help her with what? Holy cow balls! Grow a pair, walk up to a guy and say, “Do me!” THAT is all it takes, REALLY!!!
Then we have to wonder if she’s ever interacted with other human beings when she approaches a guy who is hunched over a drink looking all broody and thinks to herself, “Yes, this could be the guy who is going to screw my brains out tonight!” My neck still hurts from how hard I was shaking my head.
Finally we move back onto Jax. “He was thrilled that she remembered him. How pathetic was that?” Uh, pathetic enough that I’m revoking Jax’s Man-Card and taking his testicles away for good measure since he CLEARLY has a vagina! And then it becomes even more pathetic when Karma tells him that she can’t get laid...Pity fuck anyone?
It was at this point that I couldn’t read on any longer. I’d already checked half a dozen times, sure that I was further into the book than I actually was and I couldn’t do it to myself any longer.
Karma is supposedly cursed, I say she’s the harbinger of her own misery and fate, but in all honesty, I’ll leave it up to you to make up your own mind.
