A review by romancejunkie
Good Girl Fail by Roni Loren

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Was hoping to love this one. Unfortunately, I had a lot of hangups with this book. 

• Their ages. 19 is so young for the level of kink that was involved in this book. Not that they wouldn’t know that that was something they were interested in at 19, but the level of competence portrayed by them was much older than they actually were. 
• I thought the pacing was very off. There was too much focus on the sex and not enough focus on character development and relationship development, especially Lennox. 
• What was the point of the Mom subplot if nothing was going to come of it? That was so incredibly frustrating!!
• The same could be said for Auden‘s family finding out. It was made to be such a huge deal through the book and then it was never shown. We got a tiny glimpse of it in a bonus scene. A *bonus scene* is not part of the book. It means, when it is removed, it does not affect the book. And in that case, the book, as it was presented, was incomplete. 
• The kink in this book was absolutely not for me. It was such a major turn off to have Auden shove her on her knees and tell her to suck his cock. I am not a fan of degradation in any form. For me, that made the majority of this book cringeworthy. When I’m reading a book with sex in it, I generally like to enjoy the sex. That wasn’t the case with this book. 
• Third person POV did not work for me in this instance. It felt like a very odd choice, especially for new adult. 
• This narrator was not it. She spoke … in the … most … stilted … way. 
• Finally, I would have killed for a single normal name. I got them all confused, especially in third person, and especially in audio.