Review: Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy

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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Mackenzie Cabot is the consummate rich, good girl, always doing the right thing and what is expected of her, with very little complaint. She has dreams and it's not to fit into her family's mold - marry wealthy, and sit on foundation boards - in essence - just smile and look pretty.

Cooper Hartley is a townie and definitely your typical hot, bad boy. Another rich kid comes into the restaurant and acts better than everyone else and ends up getting Cooper fired. His anger enacts him to get personal - steer the rich kid's girlfriend away from him. And Mackenzie just so happens to be that girl.

This is your typical trope of good girl, wrong side of the tracks bad boy. Eventually this becomes more than revenge and more than what started as a bet. The more Mac and Cooper get to know each other - the more they start to have feelings for the other.

This was my first time reading a book by Elle Kennedy and I enjoyed it. While the story started slow for me, by the 50% mark, it started to pick up and I couldn't put it down. So what happens with our two total opposite characters with intense chemistry - you'll have to one click now.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read and review this.