Birthday Girl
Ratings160
Average rating3.7
I loved their relationship so much. It was frustrating at times but overall it was a great book. Good romance and spice to add to it.
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Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas was a really enjoyable slow burn with building sexual tension. Forced Proximity, caused by Jordan's boyfriend, aka Pike's son, led to Pike and Jordan falling for each other. It is a taboo read involving a boyfriend's dad with a 20-year age gap. But let me tell you, I fell hard for Daddy Pike.
Jordan was a breath of fresh air for Pike. She brought life into his monotonous existence. Pike gave Jordan stability, appreciation, and reliability. He was incredibly thoughtful and attentive. They fought their attraction and magnetism for one another for what felt like a long time, but they fit seamlessly together, almost kismet. With one problem, Cole. How do they overcome the fact that her ex is Pike's son? I was invested in their relationship and felt the depth of their emotions and situation.
One of my favs of the year so far! I loved the writing style for the most part. The only issues I had with the book at all were the super long chapters and the time jumps at the end. The end is what I was looking forward to the entire book and I feel like we missed the wedding, pregnancies, birth, the most important parts of the book. I loved the tropes, age gap, touch her and die, etc. Pike is my kinda book boyfriend 🥵
Es tóxica, tiene 19 años de diferencia pero me gustó, porque si pike fuera mucho más joven le diría a Jordan ni lo dude, hágale.
¿Sabía que iba a ser terrífico? Sí. ¿Me lo he leído igualmente? Efectivamente sí
I loved every minute of this book. Will definitely be added to my reread pile of books.
1/5 stars
This was worse than I remembered, and I hadn't even read it that long ago. The love triangle is completely nonexistent. Every single character in this goddamn book has zero-character development. Giving this book 2 stars was being generous. Cole was created for the sole purpose of justifying Jordan getting together with Pike.
There was zero chemistry between Pike & Jordan, & I stand by that. The amount of fits Jordan went through when being in that situation was justified because she is just 19 & he is in his FUCKING 30s so obviously there are going to be arguments because of the levels of maturity involved. (For some reason, I assumed Jordan was older during my first read through. My bad.) So the default dynamic I saw was father-daughter, especially since he was constantly reprimanding her and second-guessing every action she took. So, it weirded me the hell out when, after these situations, he immediately thought of her sexually. Yeah, the author does mention that he likes her personality as well, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT it seems as if the only reason he held back the whole time was because she is or was a kid in his eyes. Still weird as hell. Side characters didn't help at all either. They were just there to push the relationship which is annoying because we already have to deal with trashy MCs. Sex scenes were meh some of them were just straight up weird cough (the loofa scene what was even the reason of including that) but nothing that I would go back and read again.
I am going to stop here because if I continue it'll turning into an elongated rant. I 100% do NOT recommend you reading this book. It'll save you a lot of wasted time.
This was my first Penelope Douglas book and from what I know or have heard about her other books, I was expecting a little more (at least spice) than this book gives. I'm not mad that I read it, but I was so done with the main female character by the end of the book, I didn't even want to read her chapters. It ended nice and cute and it had good closure, but she just pissed me off as the book went on. The main male character however was the opposite. I didn't ever not like him, I loved him from the start, but as time went on you start to feel bad for him and realize he never did anything wrong. I'm just a little disappointed in the book I guess. Maybe in the end they deserved each other, but the last half of the book I felt like she didn't deserve him.
I'm struggling between reading this a two or a three star. It wasn't a bad book, and I like the forbidden romance that it had going on, but I just am not a fan of sex scenes in my books unless they are progressing the plot. Otherwise I just find them a bit of a waste of time and a little boring. There aren't a ton in Birthday Girl, but enough that I was skipping segments. I really am just not a romance girl, I've said it a million times and I'll say it again
I'm struggling between reading this a two or a three star. It wasn't a bad book, and I like the forbidden romance that it had going on, but I just am not a fan of sex scenes in my books unless they are progressing the plot. Otherwise I just find them a bit of a waste of time and a little boring. There aren't a ton in Birthday Girl, but enough that I was skipping segments. I really am just not a romance girl, I've said it a million times and I'll say it again
Estaba un poquito bloqueada y Penelope Douglas ha hecho que fuera capaz de terminarme esta maravilla en un par de días
Forbidden love... can't go wrong.
Read through so quick - couldn't get enough. Super steamy.
I really wanted to absolutely fall in love with this book. There were moments I really enjoyed, but also some things that just fell a bit flat for me. Maybe my expectations were too high? Probably
okay... i understand the hype around pike, i reeeeally do!!!!!
i loved this book SO much. the twists at the end made me so emotional but the epilogue really made it set with me that pike and jordan are soulmates 110%.
aesthetic:
pools, shitty but nice bars, construction workers, age gap, rose birthday cakes, 80s music + films, coronas, bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers.
No tenía expectativas en este libro pero no sé pensé que iba a ser algo más..
Está bien, es entretenido para pasar el rato, sin más.
I don't even know why I wasted my time after reading two pages of this book. This was so so so much baaaad....It does not even deserve one star. It's not even worth negative ratings I guess...
With all the hype I've seen for this book I thought it would make it to one of favorites but it just left me wanting more. More backstory, more character development, more everything. While the spice was good the story itself just felt disconnected. Not great but a decent quick read.
4.5 stars
Ok so this is a really hyped book. When I first started reading it I was enjoying it but I wasn't enjoying it as much as I was expecting to but I kept reading and by the time I finished it I understood the hype for it although I would still say it was way over hyped. This is an age gap slow burn romance. When I say slow burn I mean slow burn. The characters didn't actually get together until over halfway through the book which I get but ugh I just wanted them to get it over with. The chemistry between these characters is amazing which is why I was like screaming at them to just get together already. This is a forbidden romance because this is a boyfriends dad romance but there was no actual cheating on Jordan's part. At first I was kind of expecting there to be a little bit of a love triangle but that didn't end up being the case because Cole ends up being a horrible boyfriend in the end. There were a couple of things I wish would have gotten elaborated on in the end but that may just be a personal preference thing. Overall I really did enjoy this and I couldn't stop reading it. It was very addictive.