Review: Good premise, bad execution
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
Story could have been so much more than what it was.  The worse was the "romance" aspect of the book.  It felt like I was reading a teen diary.  "I love him so much" but then gives no reason or emotion.  She doesn't speak to him in years, and still loves him.  She tells a friend to have him call her, he never does.  He shows up out of the blue, and they don't really talk about what happened between them or why he bailed, but have sex because they love each other.  They have a fight, where he's a complete prat, and she forgives him because she loves him.  Plus you add that he doesn't appear to have any interest in her son until the last page.  He doesn't explain to her his family problems, other than a passing comment, and then disappears without a trace.  Then....boom they live happily ever after.  Wait, what??  There was absolutely no chemistry between the two characters in any shape or form, and for 2/3 of the book I honestly thought the "romance" was just in her head.  Epecially given there was no contact or interaction between her and Pete but for the handfull of times they are together in a scene.  Another issue I had was there was no flow of the story.  At one point the main character tells a friend why her and Pete broke up...but just says "let me tell you why..." then nothing is shared with the reader.  Later, when it is revealed why, it was almost in passing as if it was no big deal.