Review: I am giving up on RJ Scott...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
A few years ago, I read a book by this author. I disliked it very much. Years passed and I thought, okay, time to give this writer another try, maybe experience has improved her skills. The story sounded pretty good so I took a chance and ordered it. This writer has not improved one little bit.The story is convoluted. Characters are mentioned once and not again ( I think these may be mistakes in that a character is called one name early on and then a different name later in the book). Story lines are begun, but never fleshed out....Shragers, Henry, Sophia, Marcus, etc...). A main character's personality changes midway through the book. For instance Jay hasn't dated in months, but suddenly he is an aggressive vixen when it comes to Nate. Things didn't make sense. Why would an ex-husband/father recently released from jail for domestic violence to his spouse and son have unlimited rights to visit them and why would the mother (and DV victim) do everything in her power to call the man to keep the relationship going? The ages of characters seemed weird to me, too. Ashley is in her 30's with 2 children, but she is supposedly falling for a man college age, who is slightly older than her daughter. It felt like the author forgot basic information about her characters as the story went along.Another thing I can't understand is why writers from other countries don't do research on word usage...Americans don't ask what role they are applying for in a new job. We ask about the "position." Also, no one would ever wear "cutoffs" outside on a freezing February evening in Wyoming. There are too many little details like this to mention. Why not having the setting in the author's country of origin?I do not recommend this book or this author.