Review: More Emotional development Needed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
It is a rare occasion that I preface my review with the, I received a copy of this book from the author for a impartial review. The copy received, an ARC (advanced reader copy), not necessarily complete. While I do read a number of ARC per year and often do not have an issue, I want to spare the author any undue concern over the review I am about to deliver.Unexpected Destiny, is the 2nd book in the Unexpected Series, and as I had not read the first book, Unexpected Love, I felt very lost. The sense of confusion stayed with me for the majority of the story. Now before I say more on this, I do want to give props to Martin for her writing talent and character development, both of these features are very nice. I feel that with more time I would have been able to connect more with Arissa & Christian, but without knowledge of the beginning of the saga, it fell a bit flat for me, in my personal opinion.Essentially I felt confused by the book in general. I believed I had started a romance novel, but then there came an intense scene that left me baffled, where would the story go? Romance is definitely a part of the story, but again that leads to confusion... we have the repeated mentions of needing to stay true to faith, yet it gets a tad raunchy as the story progresses. Erotica? Not necessarily, but definitely for adults, which the description does mention. One of my biggest pet peeves though, and the thing that really, truly detracted from the story... Arissa doesn't emotionally respond properly to any of the critically, intense situations she deals with, and that left me angry and confused. The emotional connection should have been there and there in lies the reason, that I couldn't give this book a rave review... I truly feel that more development would only benefit the story, the series, and the author.