99 Percent Mine

Oh, this book. What to say about this book? First off, it should be known that I LOVED Sally Thorne's first story. THE HATING GAME made me fall in love with romance as a genre, because the characters were just so unapologetically human. Flawed, funny, slightly evil, and all kinds of hot. You can't even imagine how excited I was to see what 99 PERCENT MINE was on the horizon. So excited, in fact, that I may have actually squealed when this showed up on my doorstep. Which is why it was so heartbreaking when I found myself struggling to get through this book. It took me almost a full month to read it, and I was so surprised.

Here's the truth: I just didn't like Darcy. There, I said it. Oh trust me, she definitely fit the bill of being unapologetically human. If anything, Darcy was probably the most true to herself character that I've read in a long time. She's broken, and she knows it. She's rough around the edges, and oh my lord is she blunt. All of those things I appreciated because, at the end of day, she was a real human being. Unfortunately that wasn't enough to make me like her. I understood her, but we just didn't click.

What made things even harder was the fact that I ADORED Tom. I loved him from the tips of my toes to the top of my head. Kudos, seriously, to Sally Thorne for writing such a wonderful man. Alas, that love made it so that every time Darcy screwed up, every time she made him hurt, I wanted to strangle her. It's hard for me to deal with selfish people in real life, but in books it's even harder. Maybe it is because I was once a person others took advantage of, but I can't stand to see another person in that same situation. While there were some cute scenes between the two of them, and times where the steam factor was turned up to max, it still wasn't able to cut through that tension I felt.

I'll happily give this book three stars, because I still giggled more than I expected to. Plus, like I said, there is no doubt in my mind that these characters were as real as you can get. There was definitely no lack of character development. I'm sure that there are tons of readers out there who will love this book endlessly, and I so approve of that! I still had fun reading this, and I still recommend it.