Review: Great
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2012
I loved the story, read it within a few hours. There were a couple of points (the family feud & the attraction between Gia & Maddox) that I felt needed to be focused on more, early in the story, that would have really made the story great.> The feud between the families should have been described & explored more in order to make the reason why the two main characters couldn't be together more believable. It seemed that the feud was so old that no one really knew what it was about, but they were all upholding it. That just didn't make much sense to me. The story would have tied together better if there was a clear resentment to hold onto - like Victor engraining into his kids heads that they live in a trailer & had no money because of the Paynes, thus being the ultimate cause to Gia's mother's death; the Paynes believing that the Loves were bitter because they weren't given a handout in life - something tangible like that would have made Gia & Maddox have a reason to feel guilty for betraying their parents.> I loved the dare game that Gia & Maddox played & kept going for years. I wish it was looked at more in the story, where they were playing but secretly admiring & defending each other so that when Maddox finally dared Gia to strip in class there was a sense of affection more so then overwhelming lust to their relationship.