Brothers and Best Friends
Synopsis:
Eighteen-year-old Janine Bradley is shy, naïve, virginal, and has a big problem. Her brother's sexy best friend, Jess—a total playboy, and Janine's life-long crush—has a strong, muscular shoulder to cry on. He is shocked to see Janine on his doorstep after three years of no communication. Now a college student studying in New York City he is even more handsome than Janine remembers. Struggling to understand why his best friend’s kid sister decided to come to him for help, Jess finds himself seeing the girl who once followed him around relentlessly in a different light.
Janine moves to New York City to live with Jess, and is quickly taken in by a group of his friends. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to everyone, one of those friends poses a huge threat to Jess and Janine. Demons from past relationships threaten to come between them, as Janine struggles to trust this man she has loved for years.
Publication Date: November 9, 2013
Review:
I bought this book because it was recommended to me by another book I had been reading. It looked like an interesting book by the title and cover, so I thought "What the heck?" Turns out it wasn't all that good. The story line is interesting and makes you feel good that the characters were able to find love, but it all seemed implausible. Also, there were way too many J names for me to keep straight lol. The main character Janine finds herself pregnant after she was raped at a party she attended at her brother's college. She goes to the only person she thinks is able to help her, her brother's best friend Jess. This fact alone is the most implausible thing to me. The girl barely had a relationship with him to begin with and hasn't talked to him in over four years; of all the people that she knows, why would she choose him? I know she has had a crush on him this whole time, but still doesn't make sense. If I found myself in that situation, he would not be the first person I would turn to, but again that is just me. The couple ends up forming a relationship together and Jess decides it would be best to tell people that he is the father of her child since she doesn't want people to know how it actually happened. At the end of the book, you find out who actually raped her (because she was drugged, and didn't remember anything) and the guy blackmails her. Jess and Janie end up running away together after their wedding. They don't tell anybody where they are. She ends up giving birth to the baby and that how it ends. The ending is completely unsatisfactory. Nothing is solved. You are left wondering if things blow over with the blackmail. How her family is going to react. Nothing. Just wish there had been an epilogue or something to sum up what happened to everybody.
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