Review: Made no sense, odd storylines, etc.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2013
I hate to be so negative and I try to not leave negative reviews unless I think it'll be useful, but ugh, what a disappointment! J'adore New Zealand and I also quite like romances, so I thought "yeah, this book should be fun!" But I was left feeling like "what?" "How much money and time did I just waste?"So this v. young makeup artist somehow is already renowned enough to be flown from SoCal to Australia on a movie. Okay (not really), but she's dumb enough to be engaged to a gay man. And why on earth would a gay man in the 21st c. still need to hide behind a fiancee? Just struck me as an anachronistic and totally unbelievable plot device. Then, when in NZ (escaping her former fiance and her "shame"), she meets an actor after whom she has lusted but who is popularly reported to be gay; even his parents think he's gay. But he's not. (This is not a spoiler -- it's telegraphed from the get-go.)He has a close relationship with his parents (who live nearby) so why, after literally years, would his parents not know their own child is hetero? He claims he hasn't be able to have a date in years because everyone thinks he's gay. Kiwis aren't so narrow-minded.Then our heroine doesn't feel well and the book ends with poof! she has lupus. The End. What??? Where on earth did that come from?Probably similar to this review (because my heart isn't in it) the book felt totally disjointed, peculiar and ultimately rushed at the end, which left a confused feeling. I got **nothing** useful or joyful from this book, not even descriptions of lovely NZ. Oh well.