3.0 to 3.5 stars.. This book really had potential, but I don't feel it fully lived up to it. 
 Told in alternate POV's between the two leads, Kendall ("Kenny") and Cruise (hate the name!), the story opens with Kendall arriving at her new college in Massachusetts, thousands of miles from her home in California which she shares with her multiple-divorcee mother and brother. At a party, where Kendall is supposed to meet her mother's best friend's son, Pennington (ugh, another crappy name), who was responsible for setting up her housing. Of course Pen, who is a rich, privileged, dope head fails to secure her housing,,, so she is stuck, homeless, immediately. Enter Cruise, the incredibly hot, womanizing, bad boy. 
 By way of ridiculousness, Kendall, or Kenny as Cruise calls her immediately upon meeting her, ends up shacking up with Cruise in the guesthouse, on the grounds of his family's bed and breakfast. Well, not really "shacking up" in the way you are thinking. See, Kenny is a virgin, and she's comes to college, hoping to get rid of that pesky virginity. Again, after some ridiculousness, she asks hot, bad boy Cruise to "tutor" her on being a female version of him, the manwhore. Yeah, it all begins this way, but then they both start having feelings for each other, both wondering if the other feels the same way. And, in actuality, Kendall's plan to become a player is just a ruse, as she begins to think maybe Cruise is all she wants or needs. Of course she's got issues with love (mom is divorced 5 times) and, daddy issues. 
 "I don't want you to become the female version of me." His Adam's apple rises and falls. "I'm not so interested in being me anymore, either. When I saw you at the party that first night, you changed everything for the better. I think you're the best thing that's ever happened to me, Kendall Jordan." He takes in a breath as if he were bracing himself for a leap off the Empire State Building. "And, I love you." 
 Some of the dialogue was quite humorous and the constant flirting between Cruise and Kenny was funny, and the sexual tension built pretty well. Cruise did fall for Kendall pretty darn quickly (I mean by 36% into the book he was secretly professing love for her in his inner monologue), but I think the author did a pretty good job of building up the feelings that Cruise had for her. Some of the writing was a bit over the top for this story. Take this line for instance (which actually I love, but it seemed a bit too intense for this story - taking into consideration that they knew each other only a couple of weeks at this point. 
 And, as foolish as it sounds, I wish Cruise would step into that fire with me. God knows I'm looking forward to the burn. 
 All in all, this book was written pretty well. However, the love story was rushed a bit too much, even though the book itself felt too long. Also, there was an incredibly missed opportunity with the character of Blair, Cruise's ex-girlfriend. You knew from the get-go that this girl was up to no good. What was annoying was that Kenny's friends, Ally and Lauren knew who Blair was (and knew of the fact that Blair and Kenny shared a class together), but never once clued Kenny into the fact that Blair was Cruise's ex. Why? That did not seem to jive for me. These girls really had no reason to keep that from Kendall. And, when Blair finally makes her move to try and break up Cruise and Kendall, and finally to "play the player," it is too little, too late in the story (like at 97% of the book!) and falls flat. There was a lot of potential to cause a lot of needed drama to this book. This was a lend from the lendle site and I am very happy I waited for the lend to become available, rather than purchasing it myself.