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[Bulah Landaker]

BadGirl Reputation is a contemporary new adult romance with the second chance romance and forced proximity tropes. It deals with themes such as change versus tradition, life and death, family (or lack there of) and friendship, addiction, growing up, abuse of power, good versus bad, as well as love and heartbreak. I should note the characters in this book briefly recount the death of a parent and an instance of sexual harassment, which could be triggering for some readers. Bad Girl Reputation would be perfect for fans of the Off-Campus and Briar U series by Elle Kennedy, the Beach Kingdom trilogy by Tessa Bailey, The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas, The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han, and Every Summer After by Carley Fortune.

The beautiful beachside setting of Avalon Bay makes Bad Boy Reputation a perfect summer read, or a great escapist read for the colder months. If you enjoy new adult romance and the second chance trope, then I highly recommend reading Bad Girl Reputation by Elle Kennedy.

Evan has other ideas. He knows they can be good together, but he just has to convince Genevieve of that, even if it means turning over a new leaf himself. But can a bad reputation ever truly be shed? Do second chances really work? Genevieve and Evan are about to find out.

I once met a woman whose father failed to show her love and affection. Hungry for attention and very nave, she went to a party one night in 9th grade, had too much to drink, and made some regrettable choices with a boy.

Recovering from a bad name takes work. While it can take years to build a good reputation, it only takes 5 minutes to ruin it. But regardless of what played out in the past, the future can be a different story. Since our God is a God of redemption, He loves to renew and restore us in the ultimate name of Christ.

The late film critic Roger Ebert once wrote, "What moves me emotionally is more often goodness than sadness." It's a sentiment I've always shared, and I thought about it again while watching the beautifully crafted Irish drama The Quiet Girl.

The story is set in 1981, although given the remoteness of its rural Irish setting, it could easily be taking place decades earlier. The dialogue is subtitled, because the characters speak mostly Irish, a language we rarely hear in movies. The quiet girl of the title is named Cit, and she's played with aching sensitivity by a gifted first-time actor named Catherine Clinch.

Cit is the shyest and most neglected kid in her poor farming family. Her short-tempered mother has her hands full taking care of Cit's siblings, and her father is a gambler, a philanderer and an all-around lout. At home and at school, Cit does her best to stay under the radar. It's no wonder that the first time we see her, the camera has to pan down to find her hiding beneath tall blades of grass.

With too many mouths to feed and another baby on the way, it's decided that Cit will spend the summer with relatives. Her mother's older cousin, Eibhln, and her husband, Sen, live a three-hour drive away; they're played, wonderfully, by Carrie Crowley and Andrew Bennett. From the moment Eibhln welcomes Cit into their house, she lavishes the girl with kindness and attention. She engages her in conversation, involves her in household chores and responds in the most loving way when Cat wets the bed on her first night.

One of the most refreshing things about The Quiet Girl is that it doesn't treat silence as some problem that needs to be solved. When someone criticizes Cit early on for being so quiet, Sen gently defends her, saying she "says as much as she has to say." And yet we see how Cit gradually flourishes under her guardians' loving attention. Clinch's luminous performance shows us what it's like for a child to experience real, carefree happiness for the first time, whether it's Eibhln offering Cit a drink of crystalline water from the well near their house or Sen pressing a little pocket money into the girl's hands.

The Quiet Girl was written and directed by Colm Bairad, an Irish filmmaker whose background is in documentaries. That may account in part for how exquisitely observed his first narrative feature is. Bairad trusts the power of understatement, and that's a rare thing, given how prone so many films are to noise and over-explanation. Not many movies would focus on a character as unassuming as Cit, but there's nothing small or insignificant about her story. Sometimes, it's the quietest movies that turn out to have the most to say.

Grace Porter, a highly accomplished and hard working individual, travels to Las Vegas with a group of friends to celebrate receiving her Ph.D. in astronomy. While in Las Vegas, Grace drunkenly marries a girl she barely knows, but feels highly drawn to.

After returning home, Grace is struggling with feeling satisfied with her life accomplishments, especially knowing her father disapproves of her choice in astronomy. With this weighing on her, she decides to spend the summer in New York with the girl she married in Las Vegas.

For example, readers should not take Grace for an example as someone trying to find themselves, as many 20-somethings are trying to do. She makes rash decisions based on what others think, not what she feels she should do for herself.

At the end of the story, when Grace must make a decision for her career, she chooses the career based on where Yuki lives. She does not choose the career because that is what she wants, but because it is where Yuki resides.

These two decisions are major life choices and Grace makes them based on other people. Throughout the novel, these choices end up disappointing her, but she does not seem to realize that her disappointment stems from her making these decisions based on what other people think she should do.

Bestselling author Elle Kennedy returns to Avalon Bay in this sexy second chance story about two exes who can't stay away from each other, Bad Girl Reputation. When former bad girl Genevieve West returns home for her mother's funeral, she's prepared to keep her distance from her ex-boyfriend, Evan Hartley. Their history is rife with turbulence. And passion. A heck of a lot of passion...which she's trying desperately to forget. But it's impossible not to run into Evan in the small coastal town where they once ran wild. And the moment she sees her gorgeous ex again, it's clear to Gen that Evan is still as unruly, sexy, and irresistible as ever. This time around, however, she's resolved to walk a new path. No more partying. No more foolish mistakes. Her plan is to temporarily remain in town to help her father run his business, but the second he finds somebody else, she's out of there. Evan has other ideas. He knows they can be good together, but he just has to convince Genevieve of that, even if it means turning over a new leaf himself. But can a bad reputation ever truly be shed? Do second chances really work? Genevieve and Evan are about to find out.

Praise for Good Girl Complex USA TODAY, February rom-com reading list POPSUGAR, 36 New Romance Novels That Will Make You Fall in Love With 2022 BOOK RIOT, 11 Most Anticipated New Adult Romance Reads for Spring 2022 BUZZFEED, Here Are The Books That BookTok Is Highly Anticipating In 2022 GOODREADS, The Year's 36 Most Anticipated Romances

LIBRARYREADS, February 2022 Picks With plenty of steam alongside the youthful romance, this winsome story about following one's heart will especially appeal to hopeless romantics. --Publishers Weekly "Elle Kennedy's ability to build a college town universe that is delicious, complicated and drama-filled, is unparalleled. Cooper and Mack were fire and ice. The push and pull, banter and high stakes made it impossible to put the book down. I read it in one sitting, and you will, too." --LJ Shen, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author "A deliciously sexy story with a wallop of emotions that sneaks up on you." --Vi Keeland, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy delivers another sexy and addictive read, and my latest personal favorite from her! Love Cooper. Love Mackenzie. Love the twins!" --Tijan, New York Times bestselling author

This poor girl. I wanted to reach out my arms and hug her. That was during the first half of "The Match Factory Girl." Then my sympathy began to wane. By the end of the film, I think it's safe to say Iris gives as good as she gets.

The film begins with a big log. In documentary style, we see what happens to it. It has its bark stripped off. Blades shave thin sheets from it. These sheets are chopped into matchsticks and divided and stacked and dipped and arrayed and portioned into boxes, which are labeled, packed into larger boxes, and labeled again. That's where Iris comes in. At first we see only her hands, straightening labels, sticking them down, removing duplicates. Then we see her face, which reflects absolutely no emotion.

The Finnish director Aki Kaurismki fascinates me. I am never sure if he intends us to laugh or cry with his characters--both, I suppose. He often portrays unremarkable lives of unrelenting grimness, sadness, desolation. When his characters are not tragic, he elevates them to such levels as stupidity, cluelessness, self-delusion or mental illness. Iris, the match factory girl, incorporates all of these attributes.

She is played by the actress Kati Outinen, a Kaurismki favorite who has often starred for him. Whatever it is she does, she is very good at it. His camera stares at her, and she stares back. She is a pale blonde, slender, with a receding chin and eyes set deep in pools of mascara. If she were to laugh, that would be as novel as when Garbo talked for the first time. It would be easy to describe her as "plain," but you know, she would have a pretty face if she ever animated it with a personality. In "The Match Factory Girl" she is deadpan and passive, a person who is accustomed to misery.

Her job at the match factory is boring and thankless. She is one of the few humans among the machines. She takes the tram home to Factory Lane, where a shabby alley door admits her to the two-room apartment she shares with her mother and stepfather. They sit in a stupor watching the news on TV. Her mother smokes mechanically, so listless long ashes gather on her cigarette. Iris cooks dinner, serves it, and sits down with them. A soup has pieces of meat in it, and her mother reaches out a fork and stabs a bite from Iris' plate. She is expected to do all the cleaning, sleep on the sofa, and pay rent.

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