This book was definitely was not what I expected!!! It was just so much more!!! I loved the banter, the sexy times, the funny times! Just everything!! It was such a good story about a second chance romance with a crazy family that had me rooting for the couple since page 1!! I hope this is a series!! I want to see a book about Austin!!

I'm sad that a lot of people will skip this one because of the premise of the book.
Cheating sucks, yes, but it's part of real life. I don't know many people who haven't cheated or been cheated on.
Lucas and Avery were close, until one night (the eve of his wedding to Avery's sister) ruins everything. Lucas is now a serial cheater. To me dating women who are aware of other woman is not cheating.
He has a different woman every night. Avery needs this good review at her new job, only Lucas the man who broke her heart is her boss. She's smart mouthed, sassy and holds her own. Lucas and her have such a chemistry, but it's forbidden. And who wants to be someones day of a the week.
"In every way that matters, yes. When a man loves me, he's going to get all of me, not twenty-four hours."

Note: I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I haven't read a book by Rachel Van Dyken in a while and was immediately intrigued by the premise of Cheater. This was a good mix of friends turned enemies turned lovers which cover two of my favorite tropes.

While some people may be immediately turned off by the "cheating" aspect of this book or the fact that Lucas was engaged to Avery's sister, it's not entirely what you'd think. I would suggest not letting any bias deter you. RVD handled the romance in such a way that you couldn't help but root for Avery and Lucas to get together.

Avery was a strong, likeable MC. She was a little clueless at times but that just added to the fun. Lucas was just as likeable. For all his claims at being a "playboy", he was a true romantic at heart.

I thoroughly enjoyed the banter between these two and liked that they didn't get together immediately, though I do wish this was dragged out a bit longer.

If you're looking for a light, fun romantic read, I'd highly suggest this one!

I really enjoyed this book! It did start out a little slow but it got better after a bit. Lots of laugh out loud moments and sweet spots. The heroine is spunky and quirky. I like a girl who loves good lol. The hero was a definitely human but very hot. He knew he was hot and charming and he played on those qualities. These two were great together! This was my first contemporary romance that I've read by this author and it won't be the last!

I have to say that I was almost pre-disposed to go into this book expecting not to like it. There is one thing I can't abide in real life and tend to stay away from in my fiction and that is the subject matter of cheating. I trusted this author, who I've read and enjoyed before to handle it with some of her typical humor and she did. I enjoyed the heck out of this book and I absolutely LOVED the character of Avery who doesn't want to have to work for Lucas (AKA the guy who was engaged to one sister and cheater on her with another). I very much enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the next in this series.

I received an ARC copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange of an honest review.

I will be honest an admit that I didn’t even glance at the blurb before I started to read the book because it’s being on of Rachel Van Dyken’s works was convincing enough for me. Unfortunately the plot didn’t really agree with me.

Just from the title you can guess pretty much what’s going to be the main focus of the story. Yes, cheating. I generally doesn’t have a problem with cheating in books it can make the story a bit more emotional (not so much in real life), on the other hand forgiving a cheater for stupid reasons is another thing. And really if you read a little of the story you realize that the cheating situation is not as serious in it as the blurb and the characters would suggest. However the whole story is written in a way that it makes you more aware of the cheating than necessary. There is too much focus on it with the constant mentions and reminders; makes the plot tense and I personally felt obligated to hate Lucas. So yeah the plot wasn’t the most appealing situation. Because of this it took me significantly longer to finish the book than I intended. Even so I find Rachel Van Dyken writing style really clean, crisp and entertaining. She has a couple of returning motives in her stories as it happens in this book too, but she is a really productive author so I think it’s understandable. What I really like about her that she creates unbelievable funny scenes in her books and generally her stories are dominated by humor. This is present in this story too, but not as successfully as some other books of hers. It just didn’t come through me at every opportunity.

“Rest assured, he’s gone completely blind in his left eye. I highly doubt he’d able to hit a moving target.”
“Great, Avery, I’ll just practice my zigzag.”

“. . . . I saved your life with my kung fu.”
His menacing grin did funny things to my stomach.”Admit it. The closest you’ve been to king fu is the movie Kung Fu Panda, which you probably watched because you’re convinced the panda is your spirit animal since it’s always eating.”

The story is told from dual point of view, Avery’s and Lucas’, the two main characters. Avery is really stoic, sarcastic and cynical and also pretty desperate at the beginning of the book. She is the constantly criticized little sister which made her a bit prickly. She is also have a mean, vindictive side and extremely jealous and let’s be honest meddlesome. So its maybe fate that she meets with Lucas, the last person she really wants to meet when she is at her most desperate predicament. Her being extremely stubborn and afraid to let him in again doesn’t help their situation one bit. Their unique humor and extreme attraction to each other is the one thing ease the situation.

“Family pressure combined with drunkenness and lying makes people do really stupid things. You know, brain cells die because of the . . .” He licked his lip. “A-alcohol.”

Lucas is an enigma for me. For one his idiotic mentality, insensitiveness and lifestyle doesn’t really agree with some of his actions. He wants somebody to go home too, whom he can enjoy his life outside of work, he lives kids and so and so but can’t commit to a relationship. He is lying to himself. Really when I was reading about him one thing jumped into my head. The Pygmalion effect, all his life everybody counted on him cheating, they were really waiting for the moment so he started to believe it about himself and maybe a bit out of spite he ‘accepted’ his fate.
This conversation almost made me abandoning the book:

“Until next Friday, Lucas Thorn.” She pulled out a compact and started to fix her face.
“I will put you down for every Friday.”
“ Thank you. “She grinned. The snap of the compact shutting closed mad me jump in my seat. “For allowing me to take the open position.”
“ You proved your worth!” He called back.

(This after a quickie in his office. It’s just disgusting and I can’t believe that any woman would act like this.)

The supportive characters mainly the families are quite crazy, kinda caricature-ish. They all represent some extreme personalities but this is something else that is specific to the author.

After the initial obstacles their love story is cute and funny, maybe a bit mushy too for a couple of chapters. It has it funny moments and drama too. I enjoyed it but not my favorite from Rachel Van Dyken at all. I just couldn’t get odds over the topic.