One of Amazon’s Best Romances of September & Best Romances of 2017A 2017 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award Nominee for Best Contemporary Love & LaughterYou don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone… blonde he meets in a bar murmurs those magic words: “Nothing serious, ’kay?” Mind-blowing, no-strings sex with Ever Carmichael—it’s the holy grail of hookups for a guy who’s too busy following in his law enforcement family’s footsteps to think about getting serious. Charlie’s all about casual…that is, until Ever calls it quits and his world tilts on its axis.
Ever knows that when you control the relationship game, you can’t get played. But for the first time, she wants more than short-term satisfaction. Step one: end her fling with commitment-phobic Charlie. Step two: sacrifice herself to the ruthless NYC dating scene. Yet everywhere she turns, there’s Charlie, being his ridiculously charming self. No online match or blind date compares to the criminally hot cop-in-training, but they’re over. Aren’t they?
If love is a four-letter-word, why does the idea of Ever seeing someone else tie Charlie up in knots? Now he’s desperate to win her back…and a little date sabotage never hurt anyone, right?
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I listen to the audiobook and that almost ruined this book for me. The male narrator was annoying and I almost did not finish this book. Story is fine and I did enjoy it.
I really loved this book. It has some very deep moments but most of it is witty and funny. The characters had great chemistry and I enjoyed every second of it.
This book is soooo much fun–why haven’t I heard of it before? It’s the best sexy rom-com I’ve read in a long time. Out-of-this-world chemistry, believable reasons to stay apart, and hilarious banter. Is there a special six-star button somewhere around here??
Poor Charlie! He had no idea what hit him when her saw Ever. So oblivious to his true feelings and no knowledge of what a solid relationship looks like. It broke my heart a bit seeing him scrambling around trying to keep Ever away from dating. But he finally sees the light and understands and the angst was worth it! And Ever was no pushover when she found out what he did. She made him work for it! Loved it.
First off, this book is SUPER modern and definitely goes with the modern ways of the world.
The couple, Ever and Charlie, meet at a bar, have instant sexual chemistry, and immediately go back to her place and have sex. They are sex buddies for a month and a day, until Ever’s mom tells her to look for a real relationship instead of an endless string of hookups.
So she decides to break it off with him because she knows he’s married to the job. But he can’t give up the best sex of his life so he goes about sabotaging all her dates and continues to coerce her into sleeping with him. Don’t get me wrong, she sleeps with him willingly, he doesn’t force her. But he still coerces her after she’s said she doesn’t want to be f**k buddies anymore.
I much prefer stories where the couple establish a friendship first before romance and sex. This book was the total opposite of that. It has a lot of explicit sex, dirty talk and language. This was all borderline too much for me. I enjoy a bit of dirty talk in the bedroom scenes, but I also like some emotion mixed in there too. There’s no emotion the first three sex scenes. It’s all about lust.
Once we moved past Charlie being a dickwad and actually starting to accept his real feelings for her, I liked it better. The sex scenes that were actually love scenes, were better.
It does have a slam dunk, romantic gesture ending. I’m glad Charlie proposed at the end and they didn’t just keep being bf/gf.
I’m also glad I got this when it was on sale for 1.99 and not full price. I don’t think I’d read it again. I would read the next two books if I could get them on sale as well. Or borrow them from the library. I’m interested to see how Jack shapes up and deals with with alcoholism.
If you don’t enjoy dirty talk, super explicit sex scenes and lots of F bombs, then skip this one.
I really liked Charlie and Ever. There were parts of their personalities that I didn’t understand but that was the fun of reading about these two and figuring them out.
Charlie was a man who was married to his job. He has a 1/5/10 year plan and nothing is going to stand in the way of it, especially a woman. He meets Ever and even though every word out of his mouth is about how he isn’t a commitment type his actions say something else.
Ever was a woman who was raised to behave a certain way with men, to have rules and always be the one to walk away. Even though Charlie speaks to her in a way that she has never experienced before, she holds to her rules. However, one discussion with her mother throws all that out the window which sets her on a new path. This was the part of the story I couldn’t wrap her head around. It was mentioned many times in the book that all she wanted to do was make her mother happy but yet it seemed like a 180 in terms of personality.
Even though this was sort of hard for me to get around, reading about Charlie and Ever dancing around each other was hot! Their chemistry was off the charts. It wasn’t just the sexy times that were amazing it was the flirting and discussions they had that made you fall for these two characters.
Funny and hot must read!
I really liked this book and looking forward to the other books in this series.
Excellent
Sexy, fun and all kinds of good!! Very well written as expected from this author and these characters are completely entertaining. A definite recommended read.
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I attempted to read a book that is releasing this week. I got about 10% in and I knew that while it was going to a very steamy book, I knew that the heart, the soul, the relationship was not going to be properly developed. Needless to say, I DNF’d and moved on.
Not long after that, I started Disorderly Orderly Conduct and I thought, “YES! This is how you do it!” And that reminded me once again, how good Bailey is at combining passion, sexy times and an actual relationship.
Ever and Charlie are in utter and complete denial as far as the status of their “relationship”. Neither one thinks they want a relationship or want to settle down and fall in love. Things do change for Ever and she goes on a hunt for a man to settle down with, which thank goodness, spurs Charlie into action. And let’s face it, he is a GONER for Ever. Oh, and did I mention that he calls her “Cutie” and she calls him “Big Man”? Good LAWD.
Not only does Bailey combine passion and relationship development, she’s so freaking funny. I found myself laughing out loud one minute and swooning the next. I know that I’m talking about how much I love this book, but I really do love it. If you’ve read Bailey, it reminds me of her first series, Line of Duty, which was EXCELLENT. Charlie is alpha and ridiculously sexy like the LoD men were. Plus, he is not afraid to pour his heart out to Ever.
As for the rest of the series? To say that it is promising is a giant understatement. Jack and Danika, Charlie’s roommate and fellow academy trainees, books are on deck. Jack is up next and I’m very intrigued by him and how his story will unfold. Charlie has a broody and quiet older brother, Greer, also a police officer and I CANNOT wait for his book. Bailey always manages to create a character who she makes wait for their book. She introduces them early in the series, builds their story a bit in each book and then whomps you over the head with an incredible book.
What is there left to say about Disorderly Conduct? It was excellent and highly recommend it. Bailey, once again, gracefully combines whip-smart humor, through the roof chemistry and passion, into one hot and smokin’ package.
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A great start to a new series from Tessa Bailey.
3.75 stars–DISORDERLY CONDUCT is the first installment in Tessa Bailey’s contemporary, adult THE ACADEMY erotic, romance series focusing on a group of three New York police academy cadets (Charlie Burns, Jack Garrett, Danika Silva). This is twenty three year old cadet Charlie Burns, and twenty two year old caterer Ever Carmichael’s story line.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Charlie and Ever) DISORDERLY CONDUCT focuses on the reluctant relationship between police cadet Charlie Burns, and caterer Ever Carmichael. Ever doesn’t do relationships-thirty days, no more, no less- and the men in her life are nothing more than a distant memory. Her grandmother’s ‘Mistress Manifesto’, a guideline for all of the Carmichael women demands all women to remain independent, never let the arrangement last past one month, and choose only unavailable men, keeping Ever from ever prescribing to a happily ever after with anyone. Meeting Charlie Burns has our heroine throwing caution to the wind until the moment she realizes that Charlie is a man, like herself, who doesn’t want anything beyond the present. What ensues is the building love between Charlie and Ever, and the fall out when Ever realizes that she wants something more than Charlie is willing or able to give.
Charlie Burns believes that he must sacrifice his own happiness for the ‘job’. Growing up in a family of men married to their jobs Charlie knows that being a police officer means the family comes second, and anyone left behind becomes collateral damage, and for this reason Charlie is unwilling to take a chance on love or anything more than a one-night stand. Ever Carmichael watched her mother’s life implode, going from one man to another, never longer than the designated thirty day, and our heroine is determined to live out her life, on her mother’s terms, one man at a time.
The relationship between Ever and Charlie is one of immediate attraction; a no-strings attached relationship that finds our couple seeking something different when the expiry date of their affair begins to trickle down. The attraction to one another is palpable; their numerous separations are heartbreaking and painful. Charlie’s need for Ever is overshadowed by his inability to commit to something more but saying that his questionable behavior and obsession with our story line heroine is cringe-worthy and disturbing in light of his upcoming future on the police force. The $ex scenes are intimate, intense and seductive.
We are introduced to Charlie’s best friends, roommates and fellow police academy cadets: Jack Garrett, who struggles with his need for alcohol; Danika Silva, a woman who has caught the eye of the police academy instructor Greer Burns; police chief Xavier Burns; Ever’s roommate and business partner Nina ; as well as Ever’s mother who slowly begins to understand the potentially damaging advice long adhered to by the Carmichael female line. Jack and Katie’s story line is next in INDECENT EXPOSURE.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT is a story of mistaken beliefs; of one man’s determination to sacrifice love and family for a successful career; and one woman’s need to follow in her mother’s footsteps, however ill-conceived and emotionally barren. The premise is energetic; the characters are passionate and sassy ; the romance is provocative and heartbreaking.
The player just got played by a novice to the game. Tessa Bailey knows how to deliver sexy while keeping it sweet. Disorderly Conduct takes every stereotype about relationships and bends the rules. Ever as unique as her name. She acts tough, but that’s just a facade to keep the pain and loneliness at bay. Charlie can be a jerk, but when he cares about anything or anyone, he’s all in. One night of sex leads to a casual no strings relationship. Until emotions become involved? Will “nothing serious” turn into happily ever after? Something special has arrived.