Review: Really?!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2011
**May Contain Spoiler**Where to begin with Only One Love? The premise of the book is good. The idea of lost love that spans literally life times is a great concept. However, this story took a horrible turn into the unbelieveable when it went extreme paranormal and then never really elaborated on it. There was already the special ancient abilities in the Grayhawk family their really didn't need to be more. It didn't add to the story it only took away from it.The hero, Peyton, was totally different than he was in the other books of the series. In the other books he was charming, fun, reliable and in this one he was whiny and selfish. What he does to Cam is really messed up. I could've gotten past it but then he kept whining about it. I wanted to jump into the book and say "man up!" And don't get me started on the heroine, Avantae. She was a selfish, spineless, nymphomaniac. All she kept trying to do is get Peyton even though it would ruin his relationship with Cam. Clearly, she learned nothing from her previous lifes mistakes. She pretended to care how Cam felt but she didn't care. Then when she should have put her foot down and stood up for herself she let everyone just lead her around and make decisions for her.All the women of this series are all the same. They don't object to anything, the don't stand up for themselves, they have no self-esteem, they have to be willing to give up everything they are for these men, they have to be willing to come last when it comes to the Grayhawk family and the only thing they can expect to get from their so called "loves" is frequent sex, but God forbid they have any desire to be put first at any point. The men sacrifice nothing for these women the women do all the bending, all the waiting, all the being patient, all the understanding and if they ever complain along comes one of the Grayhawk siblings to tell them how beneath their family they are and how lucky they should feel that one of the Grayhawk men even looked their way so they better just accept however they're getting treated or they won't be treated at all. What the women want doesn't matter to the Grayhawk men.And talk about needing their egos stroked. This Grayhawk family need to leave the women of the world alone and just be with each other. All they want is someone to stroke their ego for them. If I had to read about how amazing one of them were again I would have thrown up. It was a little over kill on the Hawk-you're-so-great train. It was so repetitive "No, you're the best" "No, you're the best" "No, your better than I am" "Oh, no, I'm nothing compared to you, Hawk," man, it got bad.The sad thing is I actually like the author. Her book Skin Deep was excellent I loved it, but this series needs emotionally stronger women and a little more give on the male leads part. I'm all for Alpha male but these guys don't care at all for their women. The women add nothing to their lives accept for one more person to toot their horn and are little more than glorified sex toys. All in all I'm giving up on this series but not on the author because she does have the ability to tell a good balanced story, but this series just isn't it.