Name: Rock Bottom Girl
Rating: 3.896551724137931 (29 reviews)
ISBN: 9781945631443

Lucy Score

Marley gets a second chance to right the wrongs of her teenage years when she accepts a temporary teaching/coaching job at her old high school. Not much has changed in her hometown. Her nemesis is still evil. Her ex-boyfriend is still swoony. But the senior class bad boy is now the tattooed teacher of the year and he's got a proposition for her.

Rock Bottom Girl

Kaitlin Slaughter

the word “wink” was used a million times, but i can over look that

Marley Cicero has come home to move in with her parents because she is broke, with no job, and a recently ended relationship.  With an infamous homecoming incident still haunting her past and her high school nemesis living in a mansion next door, Marley doesn't know what she is going to do with her life.  When she is forced to take a job as PE teacher and girls' soccer coach in the same miserable high school with her nemesis and her former crush, Marley believes she has hit rock bottom. 

Rock Bottom Girl is a fun story about a woman who doesn't believe that her life has mattered.  While there are many hilarious situations and lots of witty, sarcastic dialogue, there are also some heavy, emotional moments.  The story tackles some obstacles that make high school tough for adolescents and teachers alike and offers advice on how to overcome them.  Marley's character is well developed, but she spends too much time with negative internal monologues and a lack of belief in herself.  Jake's character is also well developed and his cockiness somehow makes him more loveable.  The supporting characters are quirky and entertaining.  Overall, Rock Bottom Girl is an enjoyable story that addresses some serious topics.

Lynn Braden

Marley Cicero has come home to move in with her parents because she is broke, with no job, and a recently ended relationship.  With an infamous homecoming incident still haunting her past and her high school nemesis living in a mansion next door, Marley doesn't know what she is going to do with her life.  When she is forced to take a job as PE teacher and girls' soccer coach in the same miserable high school with her nemesis and her former crush, Marley believes she has hit rock bottom. 

Rock Bottom Girl is a fun story about a woman who doesn't believe that her life has mattered.  While there are many hilarious situations and lots of witty, sarcastic dialogue, there are also some heavy, emotional moments.  The story tackles some obstacles that make high school tough for adolescents and teachers alike and offers advice on how to overcome them.  Marley's character is well developed, but she spends too much time with negative internal monologues and a lack of belief in herself.  Jake's character is also well developed and his cockiness somehow makes him more loveable.  The supporting characters are quirky and entertaining.  Overall, Rock Bottom Girl is an enjoyable story that addresses some serious topics.

i was eating this up. lucy score makes the fattest books for this genre like there’s really no need, but i’ll read anything she writes  it just hits different 

julie reads

Courtney

I constantly recommend this book to people. When I first read it I related to it so much and it gave me hope. It’s such a wholesome but cute book. The fact that you can feel your lowest yet find your way back up is the best take away from this.

Lauren Grey

Rock Bottom Girl is a cute, sweet, adorable, wholesome read that will make you giddy while reading. Honestly, I couldn’t get enough of this book. It made me laugh, squeal, swoon, and get a little teary. The story game the warm and fuzzies and I never wanted it to end.

Jake was just too cute for words!

“Not only had I rescued a damsel in distress, I’d also fibbed to an authority figure. Both sides of my personality were pretty damned pleased.”

“Sweetheart, our monogamous relationship might be fake, but I can guarantee you it won’t be boring.”

“I’m asking you to stay, Mars. Stay here. Be mine. Let me be yours. Live in this haunted house with me and Homer. Work with me. Run with me. Make me lunches. Let me hold you while you fall asleep on the porch. Grow old and obnoxious with me, Marley Jean Cicero. I want to be raising a ruckus at bingo with you when we’re eighty and don’t give a fuck.”

I absolutely adored the soccer team and their relationship with Marley. The growth there was just perfect and made me want to get out there and change some lives. And the extended family members of the main characters were just too precious!

Jennifer mitchell

if anyone is looking for me I’ll just be laying on my bed staring aimlessly at the ceiling for the rest of my life contemplating how to move on with my life after finishing this perfect book.

my heart is so full after reading this story. Jake Weston is THE book boyfriend. Simply no one else compares. I loved every single second of this book and my only complaint is that it ended.

los amo, top 5 mejor libro del mes sin duda¡! me rei mucho, llore y rode en mi cama con una sonrisa tonta gracias al mismisimo Jake Weston más de una vez,

•Marley: mí reina la amo tanto quiero que sea mí tía 

•Libby “ Morticia”: quiero y necesito su libro !

shar

JAKEMARLEY MIS PADRES 

los amo, top 5 mejor libro del mes sin duda¡! me rei mucho, llore y rode en mi cama con una sonrisa tonta gracias al mismisimo Jake Weston más de una vez,
•Jake: nuevo amor literario = checked 
•Marley: mí reina la amo tanto quiero que sea mí tía 
•Libby “ Morticia”: quiero y necesito su libro !

JACK FALLING FIRST WAS SO CUTE I LOVED HOW HE TALKED ABOUT HER EVEN WHILE SHE WAS FIGHTING DEELINGS
Cute couples, awesome characters good representation and loooooovvvveeeeedddd the dialogue

Suzanna Curran

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This was a DNF for me. I had high hopes going in since it had such a high rating and great reviews but I quickly found the heroine to be annoyingly inept and way too immature for her age (late 30s). I'm also slightly over the "lost my boyfriend, job, and home all in one day and was forced to move back to my parents house" trope. I can buy that if the main character is maybe early 20s, but late 30s? Girl, get your act together. Then after I read a bit more, I realized that this woman is exactly the sort who would have to move back home because she lacks maturity and adulting skills. She seems completely stuck in her high school years, which again I could buy if she was under 25. But 20 freaking years later? Girl, get your act together! 

She lets everyone push her into things like (view spoiler)[her mom signing her up to be the high school soccer coach and PE teacher without even asking her first. She doesn't want to do it but instead of actually looking for a job in her career field, she just gives in and does it.  (hide spoiler)] She also (view spoiler)[ swears at the high school girls she is coaching, lets them push her around, and then almost gives them heat stroke by making them do intensive drills during a heat wave. Basically again, she shows she is inept at everything.  (hide spoiler)] It's just sad, not "rom-com" funny. I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone who basically makes their own bad luck over and over again.

The love interest was OK. At least he had his crap together and could take care of himself. His classroom diatribe rubbed me the wrong way though -not necessarily over the content but the fact that a good teacher would have exposed students to different ways of thinking about things and guided them to apply critical thinking skills to tough political or social issues. What he did was tell them how they should think about things, which is basically to think just like he does. I got the impression that the author thought his speech was "cool" and showed him in a positive light. I thought it made him look like a bad teacher in many ways. Not a deal breaker for me, like it was for others...just another annoyance to me as a reader. 

Ultimately, I just couldn't deal with the heroine any more so I DNF'ed it.

millie

Hibana Nava

CLAUDIA VALDES

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over "You may be faking the relationship, but you're not faking the orgasms." Downsized, broke, and dumped, 38-year-old Marley sneaks home to her childhood bedroom in the town she couldn't wait to escape twenty years ago. Not much has changed in Culpepper. The cool kids are still cool. Now they just own car dealerships and live in McMansions next door. Oh, and the whole town is still talking about that Homecoming she ruined her senior year. Desperate for a new start, Marley accepts a temporary teaching position. Can the girl banned from all future Culpepper High Homecomings keep the losing-est girls soccer team in school history from killing each other and prevent carpal tunnel in a bunch of phone-clutching gym class students? Maybe with the help of Jake Weston, high school bad boy turned sexy good guy. When the school rumor mill sends Marley to the principal's office to sign an ethics contract, the tattooed track coach, dog dad, and teacher of the year becomes her new fake boyfriend and alibi--for a price. The Deal: He'll teach her how to coach if she teaches him how to be in a relationship. Who knew a fake boyfriend could deliver such real orgasms? But it's all temporary. The guy. The job. The team. There's too much history. Rock bottom can't turn into a foundation for happily ever after. Can it? Warning: Story also includes a meet-puke, a bouffanted nemesis, a yard swan and donkey basketball, a teenage-orchestrated makeover, and a fake relationship that gets a little too real between the sheets.

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