Review: Uneven book for a smart, funny author
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 1, 2013
The story is basically about a woman who has been taught to settle for what is safe.  She is engaged to a man she doesn't love but is willing to "settle for" until she falls in love with a man who is ideal but  is committed to someone else.  Unwilling to break up his unhappy marriage she accepts his friendship.  Wrong man, right place and time.  Right man, wrong place and time. What a hot mess...just like life.The heroine who is ambivalent but moral, overly passive but passionate.  Her inner turmoil is real, her situation frustrating and heart-wrenching.  It makes for a good story but a good story line and a great main character is all this story has going for it.  It lacks material research (read up on emergency medicine please), the characters besides the heroine are flat, one dimensional, almost caricatures.  The second part of the story simply falls apart.  Even a delicious, though seemingly obligatory, sex scene feels sutured into the story instead of flowing as a part of the action.Shannon Meyer is a good author who is taking a risk writing a contemporary single story.  No arc of a trilogy, no fully fleshing out characters over 3 or 4 books, real verifiable world instead of easy control of a fantasy world.  She is very brave and makes a good attempt.I guess that is what my criticism comes down to, a lack of flow and polish.  Love the story, love the main character.  Rest needs work.  Well worth the price though.  All in all it was an entertaining read.