Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy Score - Review

Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy Score

“You may be faking the relationship, but you’re not faking the orgasms.” Downsized, broke, and dumped, 38-year-old Marley sneaks home to her childhood bedroom in the town she couldn’t wait to escape twenty years ago. Not much has changed in Culpepper. The cool kids are still cool. Now they just own car dealerships and live in McMansions next door. Oh, and the whole town is still talking about that Homecoming she ruined her senior year. Desperate for a new start, Marley accepts a temporary teaching position. Can the girl banned from all future Culpepper High Homecomings keep the losing-est girls soccer team in school history from killing each other and prevent carpal tunnel in a bunch of phone-clutching gym class students? Maybe with the help of Jake Weston, high school bad boy turned sexy good guy. When the school rumor mill sends Marley to the principal’s office to sign an ethics contract, the tattooed track coach, dog dad, and teacher of the year becomes her new fake boyfriend and alibi—for a price. The Deal: He’ll teach her how to coach if she teaches him how to be in a relationship. Who knew a fake boyfriend could deliver such real orgasms? But it’s all temporary. The guy. The job. The team. There’s too much history. Rock bottom can’t turn into a foundation for happily ever after. Can it? Warning: Story also includes a meet-puke, a bouffanted nemesis, a yard swan and donkey basketball, a teenage-orchestrated makeover, and a fake relationship that gets a little too real between the sheets.

Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Do you have fond memories of high school? Are there embarrassing moments that still haunt you? For Marley, it's the latter times ten. She was ruthlessly picked on by the mean girls and her revenge plan didn't go as planned. 

Now dumped and jobless, Marley is back in the town she escaped twenty years ago living with her parents. And her high school nemesis? She's now her next door neighbor. When she accepts a temporary job as a coach for the girls' soccer team and a gym teacher at the high school, she now has to face the nightmare she left behind, high school. Only now she's the adult. Jake Weston, the former high school bad boy, comes to Marley's rescue time and again. 

This small-town rom-com was a great read. If you have graduated high school and you were popular, an outcast, a bully, etc., then this book is for you. Lucy Score captured all the facets that make up the journey of high school.