Review: A Tortured Little Love Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2014
I've really enjoyed this series, but I have to admit that this was my least favorite book so far in it. I loved the character Bri--she makes an explosive, spontaneous entrance into the book. I believe she must have been a fun character to write. Cooper was not as engaging. Okay, everyone he loved had died on him so he has a superstitious fixation that anyone he loves is cursed. He loves Bri, but is afraid to admit it even to himself. She loves him and is desperate for him to see that love and marriage will work for him. Repeat this conflict in slightly different words and situations 473 times and you have the majority of this book. Since it overlaps the time table for the previous book in this series the book has a lot of the same events written from a slightly different perspective. Then you take her family who have always been loving and nurturing and who were said to include him as one of their own, yet they treat his love for her and the grief that he grew up with with a great deal of callousness and indifference--even the cousin that is supposed to be his dearest friend. Please understand that I give this book the 5 star rating because it is still well written, but I was disappointed for all the reasons mentioned