Good Girl Complex (Avalon Bay, 1)

*USA Today and Toronto Star bestseller*

Full of romance, hijinks, and longing, Good Girl Complex is Elle Kennedy at her very best.

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. All she 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.

Twenty-year-old Mac has 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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368 pages

Average rating: 6.85

112 RATINGS

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Anonymous
Aug 22, 2024
8/10 stars
This book had a good romance, I hated her parents and her ex boyfriend b
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2024
8/10 stars
I’ve read other reviews that said this is like After but I’ve never read that book or watched the movies so I didn’t have it to compare this book to. I overall enjoyed this book. What can I say, I like assholes who are soft for the fmc.
bear_back_books
Jun 19, 2024
8/10 stars
Oh my heart!! This is such a perfect read though.
emercedes16
Sep 01, 2023
6/10 stars
This was good but it was an average, cliché love story.
AlexGJ
Aug 16, 2023
2/10 stars
DNF @ like 3 chapters in. Cooper's POV chapters are full of misogynistic bullshit masquerading as chivalry because he.... punches a guy who's being a creep to a coworker? Yeah, that sure gives him a pass on all the disgusting bullshit he's thinking the rest of the time. Mac's chapter is just... wow how much cooler and mature and older she is than the other girls at her college. She's took one gap year. And somehow is a self-made millionaire(?) but her parents still want her to go to a random small liberal arts college?

Also, just not here for the concept of the bet. I only read this one because I was interested in the next book in the series, but now i'm not sure i'll be reading that either.

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