Review: A short romance that left me hanging; the romance felt incomplete
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2011
This story is short, around 735 locations, but that's not why I'm unhappy with it. I read lots of short stories, in different genres, but for romance, I need a different ending than what this short gave me. I needed a different feeling than the one I had on finishing this story. I don't want to feel as if I got left at the altar. There is some good action in this story, with a touch of romance, and that's the problem, that it's only a touch of romance. And I wouldn't exactly call the romance in this story love or even budding love. There is potential there for something more to develop between Jack and Charlotte, but I don't know how, where or IF that's going to happen for them. I was not happy with how the story ended. The romance felt incomplete to me.While I loved the idea of Jack, a tall, dark and brooding Navy SEAL bordering on rude and gruff, I don't feel as if I had time to form a real connection to him. I wanted more time to fall in love with him because he is exactly my type of hero. He definitely deserves a deeper, longer story. I did enjoy the overall storyline and feel there could be more to develop here -- character interaction and love interest especially -- but I have to say that this story didn't do much for me. There are just too many things that leave me hanging, with the main sticking point being that this story finished incompletely and with no real love connection between h/H, which is disappointing. This felt more like two strangers made a brief connection and shared a moment of sex, enjoying the time together while it lasted, and that's just not enough for me personally.