Review: Hardest review I've written....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
I was given this book by the author, through the mm romance group's Don't Buy Me Love program, in exchange for an honest review.I can honestly say that this is the hardest review that I've written so far. It was also the hardest for me to rate. There are aspects of it that I absolutely loved and yet just as many as I absolutely hated. In fact I must admit that if it weren't for the fact that I got this through the DBLM program I would have stopped reading it before I hit 25% at 16% I told my daughter that I hated it but would give it to 25% before I contacted the moderators of the program. I'm thankful for that because had I set it aside and never finished it I would have missed out on one hell of a roller-coaster ride with some very interesting and at times lovable characters.Let me start by simply listing the things that I disliked:1)too much detail in little things...food, clothes,decorations in the rooms, etc.etc.etc.(That's generally one of the things that I dislike about historical novels, which I rarely choose to read. I skimmed quite a bit. Anyone who generally likes historicals will probably not feel this way at all.)2)Some of the grammatical errors.... "when orgasm" instead of "when his orgasm". As well as just missing words entirely. This would definitely have benefited from a good proofreader.3)impersonal wording interspersed here and there "the others" when "he" would have worked just fine.4)Time line is difficult to follow. There were times that I would be almost certain that a week or so had gone by only to later discover it was actually the next morning.5)The jump from morning to night only to then be told what had transpired during the day.Regarding the things I liked is much more complicated. While two of the three main characters had aspects that were horrible and at times made me question if I could ever like them, those massive flaws were what made the book such a thought provokingly good novel. I wish that I could explain myself better but I just cannot find a way to say it and yet not give spoilers which I refuse to do. This book needs to be read without being spoiled. Therefore, I will just say that not only did I cringe while reading this but I also smiled and shed a tear or two and by the end I liked all three MCs and want them to have their HEA and I look forward to reading their further adventures.