Review: Made me happy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 13, 2012
Although I usually go for the contemporary romance of a more mild nature, this cover looked too cute to pass up, and I am glad I picked this book up and read it. I enjoyed this book for a variety of reasons. The relationship between the characters was really well written, particularly in the beginning of the book. The tension between the two sisters is palpable and realistic. This made me want to find out why they were so competitive and what could have happened in the past to make them feel such animosity toward each other. I was pulled into the story from that point forward.I thought the author did a superior job of letting her characters build themselves rather than making the dialogue clunky and hard to read. It had a very natural feel and the pages flew by. I was actually surprised by how quickly I found myself in the middle of the story. For the most part I thought the female characters exhibited strength and character, although there were a couple of places where I wanted to reach out and slap the main character for being a ditz. That seems to be common with chic-lit and romance both.There is some risque language and explicit sexual material in this book, and in my opinion there could have been a little less. This is not to say that the author didn't handle the scenes well or that they were offensive, it was just that after the first long love scene I kind of wanted to get back to the heart of the story and the remaining scenes just felt like fluff.The only thing that really irked me about this book was the repeated use of the nickname "Tinkerbell." It was cute the first time. I found it tolerable the second time, but after that it just annoyed me. I thought it was funny that the main character was reveling in how much respect this man showed her and how he knew how to treat a woman and yet she was okay with him calling her Tinkerbell during an argument. Really? I would have made that guy eat some fairy dust.Otherwise, this book was very entertaining, well written and had just the right amount of tension and drama and joy to balance it into a fun read for the holiday month. Sweet and charming for the most part, and I have to recommend it for the smiles it brought me.