When Darcy Barrett and her twin brother Jamie inherit a run-down house from their grandmother, her last request was that they renovate the property and sell it. Darcy plans to be long gone by the time the renovations start, but when she discovers Jamie has hired their childhood friend Tom Valeska to fix-up the house, she changes her mind. Darcy has been in love with Tom since they were children and now that Tom is single, she decides to stay in town to keep track of the renovation and of Tom.
I finished this book a few days ago and have been thinking of what to write about it. I thought I would love this book but sadly, it kind of seemed to be all over the place. I was expecting something like The Hating Game (Thorne’s first novel), but I was disappointed. The characters in 99 Percent Mine are nothing like the characters in The Hating Game.
Darcy wasn’t my favorite character. It was like the author kept telling me Darcy was a badass and gave examples like she wears leather pants, and works at a bar, and drinks a lot, and has a nipple ring, but then we hear Darcy’s thoughts and they are not badass. There’s this strange quirk Darcy has where, since she’d met Tom, she’s imagined that he had an alter ego that was a wolf that would protect her. She would reference it all the time in her thoughts but it was so confusing because it was super unclear as to when she was talking about Tom the person and when she was talking about Tom the wolf.
Tom and Darcy run hot and cold. One minute they like each other and the next minute they don’t. I found Tom to be completely condescending at times. There were times when he would totally disregard Darcy’s wishes when it came to the renovation, but he was supposed to love her? Tom and Jaime went behind Darcy’s back more than once to get what they wanted in regards to the house.
99 Percent Mine had some good parts. Even though Darcy wasn’t my favorite character, I still liked that the author gave us a different sort of heroine – short hair, rough around the edges, not a stranger to wine. I also loved the friends to lovers trope.
This wasn’t a terrible book but it needed a bit more.
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