How to Kiss a Bad Boy by Amanda Ashby #HowToKissABadBoy

 How to Kiss a Bad Boy by Amanda Ashby

Blurb:

A girl with a plan. A guy with a past. And a summer that could change everything.

Sixteen-year-old Frankie Hargreaves has her summer all figured out. Work at her aunt’s retro food truck, and have her first kiss with the cute guy from the surf shop. It’s foolproof. Until her aunt hires local bad boy, Jackson Lang to help out. Sure he’s cute. Okay, really cute. But Frankie knows what guys like him are like. All she needs to do is ignore him and stick to the plan. How hard can it be?

Jackson’s always lived in the shadow of his father’s criminal past, and is used to the world judging him. Which is just fine. He’s happy to keep to himself and look out for his mom and kid sister. That way he can’t be disappointed. Problem is the longer he works with the gorgeous Frankie, the more he starts to think perhaps there’s a chance for him to have a different life.

Jackson isn’t the only one falling hard, but after two dates things get complicated and Frankie soon discovers her first perfect kiss might just lead to her first painful heartbreak. 


Oh my goodness! I really loved this sweet and captivating book with its cute, quirky and absolutely lovable characters! Okay, Jackson is not really the epitome of cute and quirky but his loyalty and helpfulness as well as his steady and caring personality that totally contradicts his bad boy image and all the prejudices against him, make him very lovable.

When Frankie sets out one fine summer to kiss a boy, it definitely wasn't Jackson Lang, son of the infamous Marty Lang and bad boy par excellence who she had in mind. She wanted someone, well, less infamous. "Hence why she'd carefully selected Aaron for her first kissing experience."
Somehow though, when she gets to know Jackson, she realizes that rumors are not always even close to the truth and that this bad boy may even turn out to be the good one, the one who captures her heart, the one who stands fast when things get rough.
Best laid plans and all that, right?

And Jackson, well, meeting and spending time with someone like Frankie may open up a new world for him as well, one that is full of color and laughter and one that shows him that he is not only his father's but someone people can rely on and someone people care for. Oh, and he might even take "love advice from a green-haired doll" but when a guy wants to figure out this relationship stuff, he has to take all the help he can get, right? Even if it comes from a green-haired doll.
Yep, I loved this book and I can't wait to find out why her friend Via spends her holidays in a tree. Kind of. Sooooo....I really have to read that book. Right. Now!

~4.5 stars~