Perfect Chaos by Jodi Ellen Malpas

★★

SYNOPSIS

It starts like any other Monday for Ty Christianson. Fifty laps in his pool, a suave suit, a chat with his mum on the way to his office, dodging countless calls from women, and his faithful yet cynical assistant waiting for him with a coffee. Then a meeting with his business partner and life-long friend, Sal, upends everything. Sal’s hired a new assistant without so much as consulting Ty. That’s a cardinal sin in their world, but it’s the least of Ty’s worries. Sal hasn’t just hired a new personal assistant, he’s hired an absolute goddess. And she’s off limits to Ty.

Lainey Summer drives Ty crazy with her savage beauty, her effortless sexiness, and her unfathomable veneer. She plays her cards way too close to her chest, and doesn’t that just make her more enticing?

Unlucky for Lainey, Ty’s notoriously irresistible.

Unlucky for Ty, Lainey can resist him.

Or . . . can she?

As Ty sets on a mission to break Lainey, an intended conquest becomes a fixation.

And in the process, he’s thrown into perfect chaos.

REVIEW

This book is indeed chaos, just not a perfect one. I got so excited when I saw Jodi Ellen Malpas has a new book and I had high hopes for it, but this book was really not it. I don't even know how I brought myself to finish it because I wanted to stop somewhere in the middle. 

The main character, Tyler (and this book is written from his POV), is not anything to love as the author promised. He's a misogynistic pig, a complete manwhore and acts like a spoiled child. There's nothing even remotely sexy about him. He objectifies women - openly - even his PA! And his behaviour is excused because he's good looking. Huh. 

He uses women and then discards them. Even when he meets Lainey, he can't help himself. Nope nope nope nope nooooope. He's also controlling. When he's with Lainey, he wants everything to be his way. If he wants her to go with him somewhere, she has to say yes, otherwise he starts sulking and asking questions and just being an annoying prick about it. He basically forces her to say yes just because he's an egoistic asshole who wants everything to be as he wants to and everyone has to do as he says.

And Lainey is ... nothing spectacular as a character. She has her own flaws, of course, and she also keeps going around even after she meets Tyler. She keeps secrets from Tyler and she lies to him basically 70 % of the book. Yep, that's her.

This book was just one big mess. And it was written from a male's POV, terribly, might I add, because it felt like the author didn't even try to understand how men think. I'm so disappointed this turned out to be such a bad book because I enjoyed the other work from this author.