Review: Angsty but Without the Angst....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2013
Overall, I liked this story...well...maybe "like" is a strong word.  The story was ok.  I liked that the H was contrite, not sorry enough to go after the h but in his own way I suppose he was sorry.  I liked that the h walked away from the H.  I also like that the readers saw the growth that the H had and that the H never blamed the h for his bad behavior.  What I didn't like about the book was the limited dialogue and interaction between the H and h.  Readers are told about emotions, but we really do not experience it through the characters eyes.  We are told how much the H hurt but we are not shown by his actions or words how much he regretted his actions.  ****SOME SPOILER*****In fact, he jumps right into bed again with another girl right after cheating on the h instead of doing more than just leaving the h messages. But I suppose the readers should know that the H wants to get the h back because the author tells us so, not because of the H's lack of words or actions.  We are told about the angst, but in the big angst scenes, the characters did not say more than two sentences to each other and that was it. I guess I needed more interaction between them in order to have a buy-in to their relationship.  I would have liked to see more dialogue with regards to the feeling of betrayal, the fear of trust and how they were going to address that.  I would have liked to see the H's pain that we were told he experienced, his attempts of making amends to the h, his attempts to apologize or grovel.  Instead, readers were told how the characters felt but the lack of interaction with the H and h created an unemotional read for me.  Normally, I become very emotionally invested in books, especially ones where the H has cheated on the h.  But the lack of interaction with the characters made this book just....meh....instead of one where I was cheering for the couple.