Review: Why does Cathy's Milkshake Bring All the Boys to the Yard??
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
This book is nearly impossible for me to rate b/c I have such a love / hate relationship with it. The writing is great and the parts I loved are BEN and the heart-pounding, page turning urgency I felt waiting to see what would happen, what decisions would be made, how it would all go down. The part I hated was Cathy. The most vile of "heroines" I've ever read about. She made Keira from Thoughtless look like a loving, devoted, fairy princess. This chick is truly just evil and selfishness incarnate. No tragedy excuses her behavior or decisions. A love triangle is all fine and good, and of course we would have no book if Cathy wasn't such a filthy, useless wh0re...the reason I cannot give this book 5 stars (which it otherwise would have deserved) is the ending. Spoilers ahead, read further at your own risk.***SPOILERS***Cathy did not deserve a HEA. SHE DIDN'T!!!!! In my opinion, a fitting ending would have been Ben marrying Kerry and having 10,000 babies, Arsen finding true love with some young hot thing and having babies, and Cathy dying of old age cold and alone. She didn't deserve to finally bear a child. (Whose father she never even bothered to identify!!) And she certainly didn't deserve beautiful, perfect Ben. After the way she betrayed him and the horrible things she said to him, she deserved to suffer forever. That would have been justice, that would have been what she deserved. Yes, I'm harsh, but she showed NO remorse. She wanted to hurt Ben and she couldn't have cared less about anyone but herself. Arsen showed up at the "right" time and place and he happened to have no morals himself, so it was a perfect storm. I did not hate Arsen as much as some people. He is a sleaze, don't get me wrong, but he was young and jaded and most importantly, HE HAD NOT TAKEN WEDDING VOWS. Yes, he is a dirtbag, and I don't consider him faultless, but Cathy is the one who said 'for better or worse, in sickness and in health, til death do us part'. And for the record, why does her milkshake bring all the boys to the yard?? In my view, she has no redeeming qualities whatsover.Then the kicker of who Nadia's father is...I mean, if you're going to make Ben live the rest of eternity with a disgusting excuse of a wife, atleast let the damn kid be his!!! Ugh, I hate that Cathy never even had the balls to find out. She said it "didn't matter". WHAT!? How could it not matter?? Nadia deserves to know the truth, and one day she will want to know. And Ben and even Arsen deserve to know!So I do think the book is great b/c of the sheer entertainment it provides, all the ways it made me feel and how I couldn't put it down and will be thinking of it for a long time. But when there is a villain like Cathy in a book, I need for there to be justice and closure and I didn't get that here. Neither did Ben and actually neither did Arsen. Cheating is not okay and the way Cathy went about it was plain cruel, so I'm sorry, but I can't stand that she gets to ride off into the sunset with Prince Charming.