Description
She does everything right. So what could go wrong?
Mackenzie "Mac" Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents' insistence. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College.
Mac's had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. Cooper is rough around the edges. Raw. Candid. A threat to her ordered existence. Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life.
Despite his disdain for the trust-fund kids he sees coming and going from his town, Cooper soon realizes Mac isn't just another rich clone and falls for her. Hard. But as Mac finally starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the secret he's been keeping from her threatens the only place she's ever felt at home.
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Susie Kerluke @alexis16_753
April 22, 2022
4
Elle Kennedy is arguably the new adult queen- she so brilliantly captures the angst and complexity of growing up and falling in love for the first time, and pairs that universality with unique and complicated emotional situations in a way that just sings to my soul. So, I was incredibly excited to dive into Good Girl Complex with its bad boys, opposite worlds colliding, beach life vibes, juicy revenge-tinged plot, and addictive characters.