Bad Influence (Bad Love Book 3)

OMG!!! What did I just read!!!

Guys, Bad Influence by Charleigh Rose was AMAZING!!! I could NOT put this book down; Jesse and Allison are now one of my favorite book couples. The chemistry, she sexual tension, the sassiness, everything on this book was perfect. Jess owns my heart, he’s this bad boy who everyone thinks he only cares about himself… boy are they wrong. He has a big heart, he is thrown into a mix that he tried to help his family and leaving his feelings and needs aside. When he meets Allison, the last thing he expects is to fall for her. He thinks he isn’t capable of love nor for someone to love him. He doesn’t think he deserves to be happy. Allison has her own demons, she is in a place where she thinks no one is to be trusted, and nothing in life is worth the risk. So, when Jesse comes into her life, the last thing she expects is to realize that she had it all wrong.

Jesse and Allison needed each other, they needed to see that taking a chance on people will change your life. I loved how Allison was so strong and I felt for her. I just loved this book so much, I didn’t want it to end. This was without a doubt PERFECT!!!

3.5 Stars

This is a book that had me conflicted, I enjoyed it but didn’t love it. Jesse and Allie were perfect for each other. There is a lot of conflict in the story. Both of them have tragic pasts and are drawn to each other. I just felt that at times the story was just getting started and then it stalled only to pick up again. I love a bad boy with a heart and Jesse fits the bill. Overall I enjoyed the book it just wasn’t my favourite by this author.

reviewed by Sweet Spot Sisterhood

“Whatever you say, Allie Girl.”
“So, we’re on the same page?”
“We’re not even reading the same book.”

I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the latest book in the Bad Love series, and read it nearly straight through! Bad Influence from one of my one-click authors, Charleigh Rose, is angsty, addicting, heartbreaking, and all consuming. ALL the feels & all the stars; simply a must read!

I loved the deep emotional connection author Charlie Rose develops between the main characters. Jesse Sheppard is all grown up from the teenage boy we met in Bad Intentions, and let me tell you, he’s completely yummy. He’s the type of hero you’re taken with right away. His cocky assuredness is all bravado, his bad boy vibe hiding who truly is.

“The only thing bigger than his ego is his heart.”

Allie’s character really brought out the real Jesse, he hid from the world. She soothed his broken soul, and brought out the good fight in him, while Jessie made Allie’s fractured pieces fit. With Charleigh’s words, their connection and chemistry was deep, moving, and palpable.

I absolutely loved this book and am certain you will too! Take yourself back to River’s Edge, and fall even more in love with this series and these characters! One-click Bad Influence today! Enjoy xo

Overall Rating:

Prior to receiving Bad Influence, I had seen Charleigh Rose’s name bantered about on Facebook. Given my ridiculous Kindle library, I simply hadn’t read a book of hers. Until Bad Influence. And now, I’ve got Bad Habit and Bad Intentions sitting in my Kindle library to read on an extended family vacation. Why you might ask? Because she made me love a “bad boy” and an “emo girl” in the space of a day. I could NOT put this book down.

The story follows Jesse (“Jesse F-in Shepherd” to readers of this book) and Allie (“Allie Girl”). Two people from very different lives. Jesse is your typical fornicator, living on the edge, lacrosse player, while Allie is an emo, music-loving loner. A tragedy occurs in Allie’s life, bringing about big changes. Moving to the city where she spent summers as a child, she decides to go to college and work to afford her expenses. Unfortunately, the tragedy hovers over her.

Jesse is living the life that his sister, Lo, earned for him, but he’s hiding a secret life from her. He doesn’t feel a part of the life gifted to him, so he does everything he can to sabotage it. One day, Allie walks into his sister’s bar and grill, and she begins to change his life. These two shouldn’t work together, but they do. With Jesse’s secret and Allie’s past, can they find happiness together?

Rose’s book has everything I love in a romance: a playboy bad boy who seemingly cares for nothing in life (well, except his sister), a loner heroine who, on the surface, doesn’t seem the most heroic, some of the sexiest moments in the bedroom, and lots of angst.

Sometimes, it’s hard to love a character who does everything to make people dislike him. On the surface, he cares only for women, weed, and making himself numb from the travails of life. What I love about Jesse’s character is that it is all a mask. He actually cares so deeply that your heart breaks for him over and over in this story. Thankfully, Allie sees beyond Jesse’s mask of indifference. She intuits his internal need throughout the story that the reader recognizes quickly she is his soulmate. Unfortunately, the angst of this story is created in Jesse’s fight against that knowledge.

Allie is my favorite type of heroine. She is broken. She endures a horrific tragedy at the outset of the book, and it creates a dark shadow over her life. Additionally, her relationship with her mother cannot provide her a place to heal, so she shoulders her pain, keeping a distance from others. With this type of set-up, you know there will be gut-wrenching moments when Allie will need someone to save her from herself. She is incredibly strong and stalwart, but she simply cannot go through life carrying her heavy burden alone.

Together, these two have a chemistry that is undeniable. Each needs the other to overcome his/her past. With that comes moments so heavy with angst that you’ll need your tissue box to get you through it. My heart was heavy with, specifically, Allie’s pain, especially in the latter part of the book. That is how I know I’m reading an incredible romance: when the tears are dripping down my face. And that was the case with Bad Influence. Extreme emotions mark the gravity of this story.

Even more, Charleigh Rose writes one of the sexiest moments in a bedroom scene that I’ve read in a while. Hint: it involves a strawberry Dum-Dum. That alone is a reason to read this book if you LOVE steam.

I fell in love with Charleigh Rose’s characters through this story. I began this book in the morning and finished it in the early afternoon because I simply could not put it down. As I stated at the beginning of this, I quickly one-clicked the other two books in this series because I know Rose will continue to pull me into her stories.

If you love her, you will LOVE Bad Influence. Jesse and Allie are everything right about angsty romance. If you have never read Charleigh Rose, then you will want to one-click this book today.

Charleigh Rose writes amazing, edgy New Adult romance. I was swept away, back to River’s Edge, pleasantly surprised at who the anti-hero of this story was and even more excited to see him paired with his perfect match. This story was a bad boy’s fall from achieved grace through circumstances in which he feels a certain obligation and a quirky girl who’s different than the rest trying to find a place to fit after her world gets turned upside down.

Rose worked in a pertinent theme of how we move on from devastation. “It’s what we do in the aftermath that matters.” takes a front row seat to the plot of this young love story and Charleigh Rose perfectly exudes the choices we can make to fulfill ourselves or our legacies. I loved this recurring theme especially at such a vulnerable age in our lives as showcased in this book. So many roads to travel that understanding and being who you are can go either way. While the girl struggles with circumstances she doesn’t struggle with who she is. Juxtaposed with a boy who thinks he’s one thing in life but shown he can be someone different. It makes for a seductively enthralling story.

Their relationship together is total combustion. The wit, banter, and burning chemistry held me captive from beginning to end. Plenty of emotions and vulnerability slip into the pages as both of these characters are more unassuming than you first think. I loved all the secondary characters and the roles they play in the book. There’s some other unfinished relationship stories that I hope Rose gives Bad Love stories about them too. Great New Adult romance with great writing and fun story telling. Definitely recommend to romance lovers.

Jesse and Allie were an incredibly hot and stubborn duo in this contemporary romance by Charleigh Rose!

Allie had been dealt a crap hand in life and escaped to River’s Edge to start a new life. Jesse was trying to escape River’s Edge to run from his current one.

The chemistry between these two characters could be cut with a knife. I devoured the the slow burn and snail’s pace progression of their love story and how Jesse pretty much had to prove himself worthy enough for Allie before she jumped. They were both strong but broken, feeding off each other’s emotions.

I loved the angst, the back and forth banter, the chase, the fall out and the score! This book was full of hilarious moments, heart breaking revelations and sweet as pie love and feelings. Jesse made me absolutely swoon.

Jesse and Allison are EVERYTHING I love about NA storytelling. Into my 2019 Favourites!!!

Charleigh Rose always gives me the angst I crave in these books without going too far. Her angst feels genuine and her characters are relatable. I’ve struggled lately with NA books becoming “too much” – as if they’re trying to be too bad ass for their own good. That never happens with one of Charleigh’s books.

Jesse is all kinds of dirty and damaged and delicious and I might have a small girl crush on Allison. Together they are just what the other needs – even if they can’t always allow themselves to see it. I binged this book in one session and will definitely be rereading down the track when I need a reminder of why I love this genre so much.

I literally just finished this baby this morning and I’m still processing this wonderful and addictive story. Jesse was so freaking hot! I love him and I really loved Allie. She was kind of fierce and I just really digged her, I want to be her bff and go to shows together.

These two had a sort of meet cute, even though it technically wasn’t the first time they met. Jess is trying to keep one of his sicko hook-ups away from him and so he uses Allie has his fake girlfriend and that’s how it all begins. Allie thought she would rarely see him again after that encounter since he’s going to college two hours away but a lot happens in Jess’s life and suddenly he is back in River’s Edge for good. Allie just moved to town too and she now works at Lo’s bar – Blackbear – so she’s bound to see Jesse a lot especially when he comes over to give Lo a hand and help around.

There is so much to these two I can’t even. They both have events in the past they are trying to get through. Allie lost her dad, her bestfriend not even a year ago and she’s still very heartbroken especially now that she is back in the town where she spent all her time with him.She fnds herself basically alone in the world because her mother is barely ever there for her but at leaxst she hass a couple of friends in River Edge.
Jesse just lost something important to him and he tests his relationship with his sister over it. He is very complex. He is living a double life and no one knows half of what’s going on. The person he shows to the world is a mask, a mask he uses to hide his feelings and his true self. His past messed him up real good and it’s still messing with his head even now. He feels unworthy of all good things and that kinda broke my heart. Behind his manwh*re life and all the partying, Jesse is such a good guy and has such a big heart, I love him so much. Allie shows him how good his life could be, she gives him a piece of heaven, a retrieve, a solace and she gives him love. She is one of the only ones who can see the real him and see how the person he puts out in the world isn’t really him.

Allie lets Jesse in, with the pretense that she can fool around with him and lose her V-card without any feelings involved, she gives in. I mean Jesse is the perfect candidate right, he’s a manwhore?! At first it’s just fooling around here and there, no sex but when her living situation is ruined, she finds herself sleeping at Blackbear until Lo finds her and offers her and Dare’s place for her to stay until her grandma’s house is available. After she moves in, Jesse decides to move back in too. He’s pretty smart let me tell you. Now, under the same roof, it’s much easier to hook up and spend time together… and for feelings to grow. These two I swear. I loved getting to know them and see them become much more than the friends with benefits they thought they’d be. And gah Jesse is absolute fire, that man!!

Bad Influence is an amazing story of love and finding the person who will make you see your worth. Jesse and Allie’s story was much more than what I had been expecting. There is angst and there’s so much emotion, I loved how these two broken souls found each other and helped each other through the bad stuff in their lives. This couple is GOLD and I will forever love them. And we cannot forget the insane chemistry they had and all the moments that will leave you scorching. Jesse sure knows how to please a woman! Allie lucked out real good (; You can be sure you’ll never look at a lollipop the same way, I know I won’t, not without remembering these two.

“You’re a bad influence.” I smirk, taking another step, effectively closing the distance between us.”I’ve been called worse.

I was waiting for Jessie’s book since he appeared in Bad Intensions as Lo’s younger brother. Now he’s all mature and it’s official- I’m a 100% #JessiesGirl. Bad Influence completely sucked me in the whirlwind of emotions, angst and lust. And despite that I adore Allie as a heroine, it’s Jessie who totally stole my heart. Broken heroes are my weakness and although they can in fact be a bad influence, it turns out they can also be the sweetest addiction. So call me a junkie, because I’m hooked!

On the outside Jessie is a typical jock – cocky, flirty, with a bad-boy vibe. But as we peel the layers and we discover the depth of his character, there’s no way we don’t fall in love with him. Because he’s so much more than what meets the eye. All he needs is someone to show him that he’s worthy more than a life he knows from his childhood. Someone, who will save him from self-destruction. And Allie is that person for him. A girl, who has her own demons and insecurities. But just like Jessie, she’s trying to mask all of this and she doesn’t let herself break- she’s strong, independent and brave. What I loved the most about their relantionship is that they didn’t try to heal each other. They embraced all the pieces of one another, especially the broken ones. That’s why they were a match made in heaven- they fitted like a missing pieces of puzzles. And I need to point out that this story has the hottest scenes ever! Charleigh Rose created so much sexual tension between characters that there’s a serious risk that your Kindles will burst into flames. And let me tell you- I will never look at the lollipops the same again.

This book will break your heart and make you sad. But at the same time it’ll warm you up and give you hope. Because this story fits perfectly with Rihanna’s lirycs- you can find love in a hopeless place. Charleigh Rose once again created addictive, seductive and phenomenal story about love that helps young people to cope with the life struggles. And for the hopeless romantic like me that’s a reason why Charleigh is one of my favorite authors.

So I totally fell in love with Jesse Sheppard , Lo’s sarcastic, lacrosse playing, lady-lovin’ little brother in Bad Intentions. I mean…I think we all knew that someday soon, some really special girl would bring that boy to his knees! This southern girl loves the reformed bad boys with a heart of gold, about as much as she loves her biscuits and gravy. Let’s be completely honest, Allie is nothing short of spectacular. She gives off total BAdA** vibes, and she can verbally spar with Jesse like no other girl before.She’s hot AF, but there’s a sensitive girl with a fragile heart under that tough girl exterior. My heart was absolutely devastated for what she has been through. I was so invested in her and Jesse’s characters, literally my heart hurt and tears were falling. I.Felt.Every.Emotion! The River’s Edge crew are my people now, y’all! I love Charleigh Rose! She is one of my favorites and this book knocked it out of the park. There was so much going on in this book between what Allie was going through internally and what Jesse was hiding from everyone.I couldn’t wait to see how everything unfolded, but at the same time I was kinda terrified. I wanted so bad for Allie and Jesse to give into their explosive attraction and to straight up throw down, Y’all ( And by throw down, I’m totally talking panties and and boxer briefs BTW) I have endless love for these characters . They are beautifully broken, both in different ways. Do they have the ability to each get past there own crap to heal each other? This book is a MUST read. Charleigh Rose never fails to deliver amazing one-liners, angsts, drama, and off the charts explosively-steamy, unforgettable scenes. This is way more than a five star read for me!! Yum, Yum do I ever want some Dum Dums!
*I voluntarily reviewed an advanced complimentary copy of this book, but I also bought a copy as soon as I could because I absolutely Had to have it!