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Truth or Beard by Penny Reid
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did not like it
bookshelves: ageism, 1-bad, abuse, ableist, all-tell-no-show, angry-sex, awful-cover, boring, caution-hype, cheating, childish, college-boys, college-girls, contemporary-romance, creepy-cover, depressing, dnf, dub-con, endless-sex, everybody-loves-it-except-me, fat-shaming, freebie, has-children, has-preachy-agenda, hatesex, hero-heroine-tstl, horrid-hero, horrid-heroine, idiotic-alphas, instalust, iq-lower-than-age, lad-culture, m-f, mary-sue-marty-stu, meeeeeelodramatic, meh, misogynic, new-adult, not-erotic, not-for-me, paint-by-numbers-meh-sex, panders-to-stereotypes, passive-aggressive-author, remember-not-to-read-more, same-old-same-old, sarky, sex-without-romance, skeevy, snarky, tedious-prose, unlikeable-mcs, us-centric, us-male-box, vulgar-language, ya

Review to come when I have slept over it.
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Reading Progress

August 17, 2018 – Shelved
August 17, 2018 – Shelved as: to-read
August 18, 2018 – Started Reading
August 18, 2018 – Shelved as: ageism
August 18, 2018 –
page 11
2.82% ""Beau laughed—a sound that, for reasons unknown, I felt in my uterus"

This is asinine."
August 19, 2018 –
page 15
3.85% ""I was so shocked by the sensation of his skin and the electric current running up my arm, I followed mutely because I could only focus on where our palms touched."

Och, the helpless hapless little princess..."
August 19, 2018 –
page 17
4.36% ""A broken hymen while horseback riding at thirteen; lots of random kisses with random guys for fun and practice; a few inconsequential and forgettable gropings in high school and college; a drunken, laconic coupling in my dorm room with my physics lab TA last year. These were the pithy total of my adult sexual exploits."

Jesus H Christ! What bullcrap. Pwoor leetle eeny bitsy almost virgin princess."
August 19, 2018 –
page 18
4.62% ""In all honesty, I’d enjoyed the horse ride more than the man ride. At least the horse had been a stallion. Looking back, my lab TA was more like a Shetland pony—hairy and small."

One can't invent the crap that goes into this book."
August 19, 2018 –
page 20
5.13% ""Instead, with my dress bunched up under my armpits, I rubbed my body against his; my thumb circled the head of his erection. With my other hand I brought his fingers back to my panties, pressing them over the fabric and against my center, and I nipped at his parted lips."

So now she goes from hapless virgin to holy whore in under 60 seconds? Yeah. Right."
August 19, 2018 –
page 23
5.9% "Ooookay, Duane sexually molests her, and she is still starry eyed? This gets less palatable by the minute."
August 19, 2018 –
page 30
7.69% "This heads for hate sex, we have a heroine who is terminally stoopid (as in not getting a lift home from father, brother or friend), and the entire thing is so forcedly forcefully aiming at being "funny" that my teeth hurt. The writing is classless and riddled with clichés and similis I've read far too often. I'm contemplating a DNF."
August 19, 2018 –
page 40
10.26% "Yeah. I'm out of this. Being inside Duane's head is like being in a sexist, arseholish sewer. He fucks his girlfriend because he likes fucking, else he doesn't care. All the girls he had are just discardable fucktoys. But the heroine is the ultimate woman. Yeah. Right. Sexist arseholes don't work that way, Ms Reid. Not at all. So the heroine is a nitwit with an insatiable hoohaa, and the hero an arse.

DNF!"
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: 1-bad
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: abuse
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: ableist
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: all-tell-no-show
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: angry-sex
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: awful-cover
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: boring
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: caution-hype
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: cheating
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: childish
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: college-boys
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: college-girls
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: contemporary-romance
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: creepy-cover
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: depressing
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: dnf
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: dub-con
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: endless-sex
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: everybody-loves-it-except-me
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: fat-shaming
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: freebie
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: has-children
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: has-preachy-agenda
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: hero-heroine-tstl
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: hatesex
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: horrid-hero
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: horrid-heroine
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: idiotic-alphas
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: instalust
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: iq-lower-than-age
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: lad-culture
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: m-f
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: mary-sue-marty-stu
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: meeeeeelodramatic
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: meh
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: misogynic
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: new-adult
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: not-erotic
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: not-for-me
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: paint-by-numbers-meh-sex
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: panders-to-stereotypes
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: passive-aggressive-author
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: remember-not-to-read-more
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: same-old-same-old
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: sarky
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: sex-without-romance
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: skeevy
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: snarky
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: tedious-prose
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: unlikeable-mcs
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: us-centric
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: us-male-box
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: vulgar-language
August 19, 2018 – Shelved as: ya
August 19, 2018 – Finished Reading

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