Taken By Chance (The Goode Life #4)

Isla Olsen's "Taken By Chance" from her The Goode Life series:

["Chance

There are certain rules of friendship that are pretty much written in stone:

1. Don’t hit on your buddy’s girl
2. Back your buddy up when he gets into a bar fight
3. Bail your buddy out when he gets hauled in by the sheriff for ‘requisitioning’ a pair of goats

Helping your buddy’s kid brother lose his virginity?…yeah, that’s not on the list. 

It starts as a simple favor. Now that he’s home from college, my best friend’s brother Tucker needs a place to stay and I happen to have a spare room.

Then it becomes a confession. Tucker tells me he’s a virgin. And he’s on a mission to swipe that V card once and for all.

Ultimately, it turns into a challenge. While Tucker searches for the perfect guy to pop his cherry, I find myself growing more and more agitated with the situation.

I know why, of course. He’s my best friend’s brother, a kid I’ve watched grow up; it’s perfectly normal for me to want to protect him from all the assholes and users targeting him via his way-too-many dating apps.

It has nothing to do with the strange way my stomach seems to flip at the sight of his smile, or that the sound of his voice somehow makes me tingly all over. Or that I can’t seem to stop thinking about what it would be like to run my hands over his body.

Nothing at all…"]

I love, love, love this small town. I know small towns are better in books or on TV/in movies (I'm from a small town, it's not like Stars Hollow at all), but this one is so cute. The town-bitties are so damn nosey and annoyingly helpful. And their constant Facebook posts are both second-hand-embarrassing and totally fucking hilarious. Not sure if I ever said that on one of my The Goode Life posts, but it needed said now.

Oh. My. God. Honestly. This book. (this series). was so. damn. good. Like I read this book in less than 3 hours. I kept waiting for the angst, and, spoiler alert, there was like none (just the stuff from the blurb--will they, won't they (get together--tell Axel)). And, fuck, when they told Axel, I read that chapter twice, laughing both times and basically highlighting the entire thing.

It was a little confusing remembering which set of boys/men were couples and who wasn't (then again, I read so fast usually that my brain doesn't usually remember names in general). But Isla hinted at two separate couples in future books, and I'm so fucking down for that.

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