Bad Girl
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3.3 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
She never meant for it to happen. . . .
For Chicago Thomas, aka Windy, it was an offer too good to refuse: the chance to head the forensics lab at the Las Vegas Police Department. With her six-year-old daughter in tow, Windy moves to Sin City hoping to start over with a loving fiancé—far from the sad memories of a first marriage that ended in tragedy. But the job of her dreams is about to take a nightmarish turn.
She wanted to be a good girl. . . .
Though the first murders appear to be random, they are savage in their intensity: an entire family, butchered in their own home. Only a few days later, another family meets the same grisly fate. To Ash Leighton, the enigmatic chief of the Metro Violent Crime Unit, the signs are clear: a serial killer is stalking Las Vegas.
But she just couldn’t help herself. . . .
In a breathless race against time, the lines between good and bad, right and wrong, begin to blur, and Windy and Ash find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. In a town where nothing is what it seems, only the evidence doesn't lie. And Windy may have to pay for the truth with her life. Sometimes being good is dangerous.
Customer Reviews
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Although this particular novel was a MUCH easier read than the ridiculously over-the-top “Bad Kitty” (too many random footnotes, numerous punctuation and grammatical errors, preposterous dialogue), it was just proof that Jaffe herself might be a bit of a psycho. Now, on the one hand, I do enjoy reading her books. They are very creative and entertaining, but I definitely prefer her YA books over this novel. Extremely troubling, graphic and explicit. Refreshingly, there weren’t sixty main characters like there were in her Bad Kitty books, so the storyline made more sense, and there was time to get to know the characters.
The main character, Chicago ‘Windy’ Thomas is fairly likable. She is witty and wise, smart and self-deprecating (like most of Jaffe’s protagonists). As the novel continues, Windy’s character experiences a significant amount of growth, which is important and absolutely necessary for a novel this long.
The length? Holy crap. Over eighty chapters. And - spoiler alert - these Las Vegas detectives are literally on the hunt for this serial killer until, like, the very last chapter or something. Now, there wouldn’t be anything wrong with the length if there were more to the story. But reading eighty-seven chapters about the same problem, no progress? Um. No.
Explicit content throughout. I don’t even want to know how Jaffe’s mind came up with these sick crimes. Might leave some queasy.
Finally —what’s wrong with Bill? Why is he all “the perfect super-model man, sexy and romantic and wants to get married and have kids and selfless and genuinely loves Windy” but as soon as she denies his proposal, he gets angry and starts acting like a six-year-old brat who doesn’t get his way? I understand Jaffe has to give the reader a reason to despise Bill at some point (so that Windy can wind up with Ash, the former playboy detective who’s unbelievably rich, yet he works as a daytime cop. Oh, yeah —and what kind of name is Ash, anyway?). Apparently, Bill’s character either became suddenly bipolar, or Jaffe decided to just switch up his personality to make him a horrific jerk so that Ash would get to have Windy faster (without the reader getting upset). My money’s on the latter.
This book had really good reviews, and the cover art makes you think it’s some kind of sexy, edgy mystery novel. But it’s actually just a fourteen-hour narration about catching a serial killer called ‘The Homewrecker’ with many typos and a too-short happy ending to it all. Skip it. Jaffe’s got some great books, but this isn’t one of them.