Review: Liked the story did not like the writing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2014
THE BOOK WAS A KINDLE  LOANI have read some books by this author before, but have not tried anything new by her for a while. Friend sent it to me knowing that I love different takes on "from enemies to lovers" trope and thinking that I may like it. I actually did and the plot unfolded the way I liked. The author managed to avoid rape between the lovers (which I usually dislike) and well, plot was if not original, at least went into the direction not every similar story goes. I liked the guys well enough, but I actually quite disliked the writing in this one. I do not remember feeling that way about her other works. Writing felt stilted I guess, like sentences were cut in all the wrong places (for me, not saying that it was grammatically incorrect or anything like that).I was also annoyed by a stylistic choice (I am assuming that it was a stylistic choice because it happened very often, otherwise it was just sloppiness) of not using the quotations mark for the dialogue which happened in the middle of the character monologue.Here is the example of what annoyed me in the writing:"Desdaine had decisions to make. Laren waited for Desdaine to contact him.Time was the longest for those who wait.The season dragged. Jess Laren was an easy man to find. If Desdaine didn't call, it wasn't because he couldn't.Well, that was Desdaine's choice, wasn't it?No. Screw this. I get a say in this relationship. Yeah! We had a relationship. I gotta know".