Review: alright, but not my cup of tea
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2013
This was alright, I suppose. The writing was fine, if a little stiff at times. I enjoyed the characters, some of the side ones more than the main ones actually. It just wasn't really my cup of tea though. I didn't expect it to be historical for one thing. I thought it was a modern tale, but I can't hold an unfounded assumption against it. Honestly it was just a little too hearts and flowers for my taste. Everything Phil touched turned effortlessly to gold. You would think the people of The Keep were dead before she showed up instead of just victims of unfortunate circumstances. I have a hard time imagining there was NO JOY there before her, that no one had ever so much as cracked a joke on their own. Then there was the insta-love. Seriously, in less than 24 hours the two main characters were admitting love to themselves! They'd only ever even spoken about twice and the first time was a confrontation. Then there was the very Victorian sex. Am I seriously supposed to believe that Phil didn't know what her own vagina was, as if she hadn't been walking around with it between her legs for 22 years? Then there was the absolutely endless declarations of affection at the end. I know this is all meant to be about the feel-good factor, but after a point (which I passed very early in the book) it starts to make my skin crawl.