Review: Shacking Up

Shacking Up by Helena Hunting
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Fast amusing read, really liked Bane's pets, it was nice to see a positive representation of a spider.
Story starts off with a sort of comedy of errors type of thing, and I enjoyed that Ruby and Bane built their relationship through a long-distance type set-up.

However...ugh, maybe I am over thinking this book but there are a few things that really bugged me about it. First being that Ruby was coming from such a background of privilege, that even if her acting thing didn't work out she would still have a job working for her father. Although she says that she has a strained relationship with him I just wasn't really feeling the peril of her having to go work for him. That coupled with the dismissive and somewhat obnoxious manner in which she spoke about working as a burlesque dancer much less the shaming of sex workers just really rubbed me the wrong way.
Add to that with how she keeps referring to her BFF's worrying changes in behavior due to her fiance yet never asking her BFF about it really had me side-eyeing Ruby. I assume as there wasn't any sort of resolution to her BFF's story line and the massive number of info drops about other side characters that those side characters will end up having their own books, but, eh.

Speaking of info drops, the first few chapters were like info bowling balls dropped on the reader.

All in all, a perfectly serviceable book, just didn't hit me the right way I guess.

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