Review: Are you kidding me? There are MORE of these books?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2011
If I wanted a lesson on how to completely write a book series that will never be picked up by an agent or publishing house with any sense this is it!Jessica is a once-wild-child shouldering the ever waffling level of guilt over her father's ambitions and dedication to others. After his death she comes home and takes care of her two siblings (apparently experiencing the level of confusion and frustration with picking kids up on time from school and paying bills that my brain damaged cousin would have IF she could drive). She now works in the ER at a local hospital.Ben is a the typical Ivy League movie-good-looking guy with a magical talent for people and medicine. His dad was a missionary who spent his life and energy only doing that; generally acting like a piss poor father figure.I am roughly halfway through the book and there has been NO:discernible conflictstartling situation or event that will change either character's life permanentlysexchange in how the characters interact with each otherToss in some diamond-in-the-rough street kids (one called Mario who is evidently a candidate for MENSA but lives a "fight club" life), a lame set up for Ben's grief (a wiped out village in Africa he spent 6 years on a mission to) and we have the weak tug of war in this book. She gets a bit huffy and leaves a bar about now. I was hoping for her to be hurt, aloof, make him work for it and hit a realization he would have to work through. Wrong; he brings pizza to her wayward children at the center and she melts all over him. *disappointed sigh*All in all, I skim the pages to find dialogue or skip the page-long introspection that happens about every 3 pages.Crossing my fingers.