Review: Disappointment
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2013
This book had great potential, it really did; but it seemed like it was written by a sexually repressed, Protestant, grandma- complete with prudish views on sex, cursing, and "womanly" hobbies (i.e. knitting, gossiping, and cooking). She seems to have some body image issues, is an extensive Western romance reader, but is under-educated.There were cringe-worthy errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and sentence structure. Errors an average high school student would catch. I couldn't focus on the story they were that obvious. And oh what a story!  She spends 90% of the story on the first two days of the characters meeting each other, going into mind-numbing detail of each and every action taken. The character's minds and personalities weren't explored or developed at all, they go from stereotypical "manly man" and plain as oatmeal/overweight woman to love and passion.Another HUGE turn-off was the modern colloquialisms and error-laden turn of phrases i.e. "could care less", it's "COULDN'T care less".The whole story comes off as a gossipy, rambly story told by an out-of-touch, insipid, ubiquitous old lady- one I imagine either has a lap dog or a house cat; lives in an assisted living facility; drives a 10-year-old, tan Buick; and talks about her grandbabies, her neighbors, and that this country going to hell in a handbasket. Family values. Obama. (Insert every stereotypical Thanksgiving conversation with your elderly relatives here.)Everything about the author screams undeveloped and a product of time.I only bought the book because a) it was a time-travel romance (and I was desperate), and b) it was 99 cents. After reading only the sample, I was very hesitant already: the inappropriate capitalization of the word "marshall" (not to mention not putting "a" in front of the word- so it sounds like the author is talking about a guy named Marshall), the "backing soda" Cody mentioned, and Liza being from the east (when referring to the East vs. the West of the U.S.).I was scraping the barrel with time-travel romances- in that I wasn't disappointed; this quality WOULD be expected at the very bottom.