Review: Better than Bare Necessities
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2012
I was first going to ignore this story since I had read another story by this same author. And though that story was actually really good, some of the things in it really irritated me. I had hoped this one would not have the same problems. For the most part it is better. I did read these out of order so I was extra shocked at the discrepancies or somewhat differences I found in the personalities of the characters in the other book. The main one was Seth. I don't know if it was just me or whether Seth sounded very different than how he was in his own story. Even though he has a very brief part in this one, that one impression did not seem like the conservative or traditional Seth that we are presented with in his own story in which he makes a big issue about the type of store someone is opening in his town. Yet in my opinion he's doing something much ruder like getting into someone else's business on a very private topic. Even Samantha shows some attitude in this one. So at the end, I realized that the characters of this town are kind of rude. I know everyone is in everybody else's business in small towns, here they are a little more irritating.I also thought that in each story there's one character that is totally doing a TSTL thing or just weird. In this case, thankfully it was an ex who was a blockhead about an issue related to the heroine. I was also very surprised at how readily the heroine gave her ex her new location, which made it pretty apparent what was coming up later in the story.Besides strange, sometimes rude characters in this story, and some of these really foolish TSTL type behaviors, it was good. I liked it better than Bare Necessities.