Review: Chinese AMBW Contemporary Romance
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2013
This is a Chinese AMBW contemporary romance and all in all its a sweet story but it falls weakest at the moments when strongest  emotional scenarios are present. At these moments it seems the writing is very rushed or rather things become very convenient. No complexity is allowed with these moments .... no thoughts to leave you lingering on ... just easy fixes to the problem at hand. My next disappointment is the writing style for the bedroom scenes.  I am no stranger to romance in its many styles - contemporary to paranormal to Christian romance - I feel that the sex scenes in here were just ok.  It was almost too contemporary for my tastes... Either the author doesn't know good ways to say sexy things minus the raunchy or she just wasn't comfortable with going into details. Wearing a thin veil over your eyes is how intimate scenes of contemporary romance stories are usually written- there but not fully savoring the moments.  Then (spoiler) there is only one bedroom scene in which details are actually given in the entire book.  Usually if that's going to be the case it's saved for last... well in this book it's at the beginning. So, I'm given a taste of love making between the couple that had a choppy  transitioning, was clumsy and lacking in the steam department. Only to wait for the next bedroom scene later in the book that only gave the descriptions that Cheng's clothing was removed and that he looked better than before and Angela's was as well but her body wasn't what it used to be and that they made love for four hours.  Disappointment.  So much opportunity missed here... Another peeve would be (Spoiler) the author's choice of destroying Angela's fiancé Brian's character! First Brian was written as a good man - routined but decent. He's a doctor and works a lot but still finds the time out of his busy schedule for a meal with Angela everyday. They dated for a more than a year and a half and were engaged to be married shortly. Conveniently Brian's character was thrown under the bus as being abusive, uncaring - pretty much a jerk as soon as Angie dear decides she wants to be with Cheng's character. There were little warning signs that the prestigious doctor was actually a bad person. There's more about this slaying I didn't like but I'll leave it at that. Brian was poorly rewarded for his good intentions and written over as the fall guy - clearly a very COMPLICATED situation was avoided by the author by way of conveniently writing him out to be a closet jerk!  My final peeve when Angela and Cheng's son was introduced into the story, he conveniently likes Cheng upon seeing him for the first time and invites him over to watch his favorite tv show together... A stranger...whom he is seeing for the first time standing OUTSIDE of his front door talking with his mom.... Not someone welcomed inside and warmly introduced.... Okay w/e.  Too convenient!  All in all it was an okay story  and one of few AMBW books available - which I am a huge fan of. Recommend read for that alone but there is much room for improvement!  I'd still consider reading volume 2 for a follow up on Cheng and Angela.  - written on my smart phone so beware the autocorrect mistakes. Lol