Review: A different kind of romance read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
This book started off with so much potential. The minute Jason ran into Rachel at the bridge I needed to know more about them both. Why was Rachel there? Why was she contemplating suicide? And with Jason, I wanted to know who he was because he reached out to her without even thinking twice about it. He was a good guy and I took an instant liking to him. Maybe it was because he was so different from the usual hero in most novels these days. He wasn't a good guy pretending to be a bad boy, one who needed the right girl to fix him. But, he was a good guy through and through, who needed the right girl to appreciate him for who he was.Jason and Rachel were on two very different life paths, but they were both obviously being dragged down in some way or another. Rachel found her out, but it came with a heavy price, almost. Jason just needed to be steered down the right path. Rachel wasn't at all what I was expecting. With a sordid past and quite a low sense of self-worth, and after her show on the bridge, I was surprised that she had such a bubbly personality. I really liked that she put her attraction for Jason at bay because Lindy was in the picture, although I knew it was only a matter of time before neither of them cared about that particular fact.Once they got together, the excitement of the story seemed to fizzle out. Even when they ran into a few speed bumps along the way, it didn't change the tone of the story very much. I missed the thrill of finding out who Declan really was, and the struggles they faced with Jason's family etc. I still enjoyed the story, but I just didn't feel as connected to the characters as I would have liked to.Readers looking for something different, but something that still stays true to the New Adult Contemporary Romance genre will love this book.