Stone, At Your Service is book one in the Carolina Bad Boysseries by Rie Warren. This is my first experience with this author and I was not impressed. I’m not a contemporary reader, but I do like to try them out now and then, so when I won a gift copy I gave it a try.

Josh Stone meets his dream girl at the most inopportune time. He is a rough-around-the-edges, single-dad who spends every friday night with a different girl, but when he sees Leelee Songchild all he can think about is getting in her pants and keeping her forever. 

The story is written/told in Josh’s POV. I do like to read POV’s, but this one fell flat. Josh comes across more bi-sexual and not as the bad boy alpha he was supposed to be portrayed as. He is pretending to be gay to help his long time friend, but at times I questioned if something was going on between the two of them. His pursuit of Leelee was not at all engaging and I never felt a romance bloom/grow between the two. I wanted to like this book, but simply I could not connect with the characters, plot, or romance. Nothing felt right. The characters where Eh, the story felt off, and the writing was so so. All and all, nothing worked for me. 

Stone, At Your Service was not the book for me. If the blurb intrigues you, I urge you to give it a shot. Just because it did not work for me does not mean it won’t for you.