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**2.5 stars**

The heroine brought this rating down. What a stupid, immature, moody child! She definitely doesn't qualify as a woman in my eyes.

Candace is 23 going on 15. She has a very protective parents who control where she goes to college, scare everybody she dates and support her financially in every way. However, Candace just bitches about it, does nothing and allows her parents to even pick her friends.

Enter Brian, the hot tattoo artist. This is a man her cousin had dated and Candace always loved. To celebrate her 23rd birthday, Candace decides to get a tattoo (in a place where her parents can't see, of course!) and Brian's the man for the job.

Some spoilers...

Thus starts a relationship where Candace is constantly running hot and cold. She begs him to relieve her of her virginity but freaks out when her Mom almost find them together. Then she stalks him when she sees him with a woman friend and dresses provocatively to supposedly tell him that nothing can happen between them. Huh? EVERYTHING is about her, so she doesn't give two figs about messing up with somebody else's wedding and when Brian needs her, she leaves him to fend for himself because if I can't be with you, it was because I loved you so much I can't burden you with my issues. Pleeeease! Have you a heard a bigger bunch of self-sacrificing drivel?

But you know what's her problem? She wants to have her cake and eat it too! She wants to have her man without any problems with her parents. She says she wants to 'save herself' but she does NOTHING to bridge the gap between them. At the end, Brian is the one that does everything!

And BTW, the way that problem was solved was VERY unrealistic. Psycho controlling parents don't become sweet and caring in a couple of weeks.

The best part of the book was Brian's apadravya (that's a genital piercing.) Needless to say, don't Google this at work!