** spoiler alert ** 
 I had several people recommend this book, TORN, to me. To those people, I have but ONE question.. 
 DO YOU HATE ME?! 
 I'm marking this review as full of spoilers, because it is, so please do not proceed unless you have either already read TORN, or if you have no plans to put yourself through this torture. 
 In TORN, we meet Chloe, a college student who dresses like a rocker chick, has a best friend Logan who she thinks is sexy but who she only looks at like a brother, and Drake, the womanizing bad boy with tattoos who is the object of Chloe's undying insta-LOVE. (I HATE INSTA-LOVE!!) 
 When we begin TORN, Chloe tells us a billion times that she has NO idea why her BFF Logan is acting so weird lately -- which tells us that Chloe is an idiot, because Logan is certainly not the brightest crayon in the box.. and he is DEFINITELY not being subtle about the fact that he LOOOOVES Chloe. He's weirdly overprotective, to the point that he seems to have some creepy paternal-role fixation with her, and we have no obvious reason by which to understand these feelings for Chloe. She's irritating and slow, and she loves blaming her problems on the rest of the world. 
 Now, I MUST take a second to let you bask in the glory of some of the direct quotes from this gem. No, I'm not changing these to make them more ridiculous. These are copied verbatim from the copy on my Kindle... 
 His eyes had darkened until they were black with hunger as he stared at me 
 . 
 So either you're food or an object of lust. We're still in the first few pages since meeting Drake, so neither is sexy here. 
 I pushed myself back tighter against his now bulging cock 
 No commentary needed here. You get the picture. 
 thoughts of licking certain parts of Drake running through my head... 
 I want to pick you up and carry you to my room and slam into you until you scream my name over and over again as you shatter to pieces beneath me 
 Now, THIS one is my favorite of the whole novel. This is Drake, talking to Chloe. 
 You can wear my clothes and I, uh, have some girl underwear and bras someone left here. 
 A normal woman gets the hell out of there, right? Well, not Chloe. She's totally fine with it all. 
 So, Chloe decides to be in a relationship with Logan, which makes no sense, given that she's done nothing but lust over the other dude for the whole novel. The first thing she does in a relationship with her BFF? Has sex with Drake. Twice. Good job. 
 The characters were just loathsome, the love triangle was stupid, and the only good part of the novel, for me, was the very end when Chloe's mom showed up. 
 I'll round my rating up to 1.5, because I *might* read book TWO for long enough to find out what Chloe's mom wants. I could care less about this psycho love triangle, though. 
 Thank you to the publisher for sending me a review copy of this book, although I guess you may not send me another one in the future... LOL. 
 I know several people who loved this book, though, and the ratings seem to be almost entirely more positive than mine. So, as always, your results may vary.