Review: Poorly written romance-erotica novel
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2013
I like to read light fiction on my tablet while walking on the treadmill and was looking for some new authors when I discovered this free ebook. Sure glad it was a free one! It is obviously early in this author's writing career, but that is not an excuse for the many typos scattered throughout the book. The very first paragraph has one, "The barrage of emotions she faced from day to day only intensified by the reality of not having anyone to help ease her burden her."  Assuming that when you publish a free ebook maybe you can't afford to pay a good copy editor, I continued on with the story. It is difficult to like the main character, Susan, because she is weak, whiny, and self-centered. The basic story is that her mother is dying with Alzheimer's disease and Susan and her father have just moved her into a special care facility. Susan has spent most of her time over the past few months helping her father care for her mother and she is having difficulty facing her mother's impending death. She is also lonely and feeling left behind because all her friends are getting married and moving on with their lives while she has no one. A few friends invite her out for drinks, mentioning that they will be bringing "a friend". Against her better judgement, she goes and discovers "the friend" is a doctor recently returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. He's smart, single, and gorgeous. But Susan is all wrapped up in herself and makes a total fool of herself. This is a common theme throughout the book and it gets tedious. The author describes herself as a writer of erotic and paranormal romance, but the one sex scene is not very sexually scintillating.  All in all I found this book a big disappointment and will not be reading more from this author.