I feel like I really wanted to enjoy this book seeing as i really liked the first one, but this one just kinda fell flat for me.

I loved the premise of it, a bad girl gone good (but not really), but i feel like i didnt know know any of the old characters. Coop felt like such an asshole without a cause to me. I understood he wanted to protect Evan but the way he would just say things about Gen annoyed me so much!

Overall i feel like we got a lot of info from the other side characters and not that much from Evan himself. The moments between Evan and Gen were moments i really enjoyed but other than that i was disappointed.

Not sure wich couple will follow this one but I’m still looking forward to continue the series in this town Elle Kennedy has created.

Thank you to St. Martins Press and Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Fun summer rom -com. Main characters were not developed well, but story line was intresting. I enjoyed a little twist at the end.

I loved the first book in the Avalon Bay series and i was so excited to get my hands on this one and let me tell you it lived up to all my expectations! Elle Kennedy has a way of writing MMCs that make my heart turn to mush. This book was fun and spicy and also serious and thought provoking at times. I loved the side character cameos and can’t wait to read more about them in upcoming installments

A classic will they or won't they second chance romance with heat, Bad Girl Reputation was a fast read. Gen returns home to Avalon Bay for her mother's funeral and one of the first people she sets eyes on is her best friend and ex Evan. The chemistry between them is lightening but Gen wants to stick her bad girl past firmly in her past. She does her best to avoid him and keep her life together but their magnetic chemistry is too difficult to avoid.

Can Gen stay sober and settle down with Evan? Is Evan mature enough to build a life with her? Is chemistry enough to sustain a relationship?

Sizzling read by Elle Kennedy and I look forward to reading more from her. Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for the ARC.

If you are looking for a great rom-com, this book is it. It’s funny, touching, sexy. You will get sucked into the romance and emotion.

Thanks NetGalley for the Arc!

Elle Kennedy writes with such ease that it’s a breeze to get through her books. It was fun to read Bad Girl Reputation after Good Girl Complex. I’d love to read more of her books!

Genevieve comes home for her mothers funeral. She has recently completely moved away to ditch all her old habits and old boyfriend, Evan. But of course seeing him at the funeral brings back old feelings. She’s determined not to slip back into her partying and troublesome ways. Evan can not give her up that easily. Can people change together? Are they meant to be if they both need to grow so much? Is it worth it to change for someone?

I give Gen so many props to do what is best for herself. Giving up drinking alone is such a challenge. I know it’s always harder when people return home after trying to break free of their habits/vices.

There was a ton of steam in this book. Some I could’ve done without. It was also suggested that Evan really got around. That part confused me a bit because it seemed like he & Gen were together for most of their lives. He really adores her though and works hard at changing himself to be better for her. I’m not sure we needed that bad boy layer to his character. It made him a bit of a hard sell for me if he’d slept around so much even though he swears they’re meant to be.

There was a lot going on in this story which was fun but sometimes chaotic. There were also some heavy themes (addiction, sexual assault, drugs). Kennedy does a nice job addressing both sides of these things.

I absolutely loved Genevieve and Evan and their will they/won't they throughtout this book. I may have been a bit wild in my youth so I found Genevieve quite relatable along with her struggle to forgo alcohol. It's definitely a tough thing to change something that was such a huge part of the way you interacted with your entire friend group. The spicy bits were great and the evolution of the main characters were addictive to read.

If you like romance with depth, grat characters, and steamy spicy bits then this is definitely the book for you!

This was my first Elle Kennedy novel and I absolutely loved it! I found some aspects of the story to be dark and chilling which always keeps me interested!

I would 1000000% recommend this to my friends and now have Elle Kennedy as one of my top authors!

After reading Good Girl Complex and loving it earlier this year, I went on an Elle Kennedy binge and have now read 9 of her books! I’m happy to say Bad Girl Reputation was worth the wait! I flew to rough this one! I was excited for Evan’s story after seeing glimpses of him in Good Girl Complex. I’m not sure if I loved Evan and Gen quite as much as Cooper and Mac, but I still really liked this one! I loved their beach town and the second chance romance between Gen and Evan. Evan’s transformation was a little quick, but I liked seeing both of them work on themselves. I’m hoping there were hints at the end that this will be a longer series!

Small town, first love, crazy past and a path leading to the right direction. We meet Gen when she returns home to her past and her first love, Evan. They are two magnets drawn to each other. We see their individual journeys to be better than their past. I adore their bond. So much hope and faith things will work out in the right direction, if only you believe in yourself and what you are capable of.

3.75 ⭐️- this book was a fun, quick read! Bad girl Gen is back in town after disappearing the previous year, and no one is happier than her on again, off again bf since forever, Evan. This book follows Gen and Evan as they realize they can’t go on the way they always have, and try to turn their lives around not only for each other, but for themselves. I loved that this book gave us insight to Mac and Cooper following Good Girl Complex, the boys’ family drama with their mom, and the hotel! A big shout out to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC, catch this book when it comes out in October!!

Underwhelming, gave B list Tessa Bailey. There was a lack of plot and overall character growth for me.

I loved this installment of the Avalon Bay series!! Getting to know Evan and Gen while also catching up with Cooper and Mac made for such a enjoyable read. From the friend group, family members, the villain, reinvention of oneself, reconnecting, still hilarious pup and introduction of some new characters - this book was a hit! I’m already counting down to the next release!
10/10 recommend this series!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press For the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Another stunning, sexy story from Elle Kennedy! I'm not sure if the Avalon Bay series will continue, but I sure hope it does because there are so many characters I'd love to continue following! Evan and Gen's story was a sweet one that tied a boy on the Hartley brothers story. Excited to see if we get more of this town!

unfortunately I had to DNF this book at 40% I loved Elle Kennedy's briar u and off campus series and overall liked the good girl complex bur I couldn't connect with this one

Elle Kennedy is a wonderful author who writes interesting books that are fun quick reads. This book was awesome and I loved the characters. I would recommend to others.

💞 second chance romance
🚫 straight edge representation  
🏖 beach town setting

Admittedly, I was not a fan of Good Girl Complex-the first novel in the Avalon Bay series. I was hesitant going into this second novel in the series. Thankfully, Bad Girl Reputation made up in nearly all of the ways that Good Girl Complex lacked.

In my opinion, Evan was one of the few good things about the first novel in this series, and I loved his POV in this book. Evan's POV offered a new perspective on his laidback attitude, drinking, his relationship with Cooper, and his hope for having a relationship with his mother. Within the first few chapters, Evan puts Cooper in his place, which honestly was way too enjoyable for me (I’m a Cooper hater if you can’t tell). 👏 I enjoyed Evan's approach to cleaning up his act and the new relationships and perspective he was able to gain due to his choices.

Evan and Geneieve were great main characters, and their story seemed to differ from other romances I've read. I enjoyed seeing both characters grow as individuals while reflecting on mistakes from their pasts. I liked how Geneieve truly wanted to better her life. Every time she chose a mocktail in favor of cocktail, I was cheering. For the most part, Geneieve stood her ground when it came to maintaining the changes she made in her life.

The chemistry between Evan and Geneieve was off the charts-which made the entire book. 🥵 Despite both characters growing and changing, it was evident that they were growing together. I am literally obsessed with the last two chapters of this book!

There were times I was a little bored with the story. Nearly every other chapter a side character would go into a long story about some crazy, drunken mishap that had absolutely nothing to do with this anything that was going on. Maybe these incidences will matter in future books, but I highly doubt it. It just felt like unnecessary filler with no significance. There were also times this felt a bit predictable, but I still enjoyed this story. Because of this, I didn't feel like I could justify a higher rating.

Regardless, I will be back for book 3!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Bad Girl Reputation is a story about two high school sweethearts (sweethearts used loosely for two bad-ass teenagers) who get a second chance at not only love but their own lives and reputations in Avalon Cove.
I have never read a story where both MC's are actually bad for each other. Their past relationship was toxic and full of bad decisions and Elle Kennedy did such a great job that there were a few points where i hoped they would just move on from each other (lol!)
I really enjoyed watching Gen and Evan realize they needed to work on themselves if they ever wanted to try at a real relationship. I loved the glimpses we got into their past relationship which helped us understand why Gen left and the thing we learned about Evan in book one, The Good Girl Complex.
This is an intense, angsty second chance love story that is full of chemistry, redemption and self improvement. And of course it has a fair share of spice, witty banter and dual POV. I loved it and cant wait to dive into my backlog of Elle Kennedy novels!

Four stars
Thank you NetGalley for our first ARC Review- we really enjoyed it!
Super happy it got to be a Canadian Author!!

I have been a fan of Elle Kennedy for so long, she's just become an auto-click author for me. However, I think it may be time to rethink that. I am captaining the struggle-bus with this series. I find the relationships to be problematic and the characters to be...well, not super likeable. Add in that the relationship in Bad Girl Reputation is (or at least starts out) driven entirely by physical chemistry and you've completely lost me.

This series just isn't my cuppa. I'm not feeling the chemistry or the emotions that I want to feel (and instead feel stressed out or low key upset most of the time). This one was a DNF for me. I am not done with Elle Kennedy, but I think I might be done with this series.

I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to read and review. Unfortunately, this one didn't work for me.

Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
I had originally received Good Girl Complex as an ARC as well and enjoyed it! I ended up seeing Bad Girl Reputation on Netgalley and knew I would have liked to have it just to read it! The characters in this book are a hot mess but I really loved seeing the character development and some growing relationships with side characters as well.
The steam in this book was also good too bahaha.

3.75 rounded up to 4!