Review: No. Just. No.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
Complimentary copy provided by author/publisher for an honest review.I'm sorry, but this book was just beyond ridiculous. It actually started off somewhat promising, but when Gabrielle's inner dialogue states "It sounds like he wants me" when all Ric asked was her name, I wanted to reach into my kindle and bitch-slap her all to holy hell. And don't get me started on Ric, who is a whole new breed of special. He visits the bakery cafe where Gabrielle works and decides to donate $200,000 to the cafe so it won't close, by whipping out his checkbook. But we never really learn why he's saving the cafe.So both Gabrielle and Ric obviously have the demons of their pasts to deal with, and both have equally tragic stories. But the next incident that made me want to throw my kindle across the room was when Ric came to visit Gabrielle at her home (which is only the third time they've seen each other), she wants a bout of good, hot sweaty sex to help her forget about the pain of learning of her father's recent medical diagnosis. Okay, I don't have a problem with that. What I did have a problem with was that again, Ric whips out his checkbook to pay for her dad's medical expenses. Really? After seeing someone just three times, and two of those times were at her job?No. Just. No.Then she drowns her sorrows and gets drunk; Ric tries to do the right thing and not take advantage of her while she's inebriated, but they do end up getting it in. And then there's the pregnancy to deal with.As if all of that wasn't enough to make me scream in frustration, when I got to the part where they end up back at Ric's house, and after another session of them getting it in, he informs her that there are some clothes in a closet that she can wear, but the clothes are from other women who have stayed at the house before her.What. The. What.At that point, I was so ready to be done with this book I ended up skimming through most of it, and still neither Gabrielle nor Ric redeemed themselves. Further into the book, we get to meet her roommate Maria's family, who are in town for a family reunion. Maria had intended to introduce Gabrielle to Antonio, one of Maria's cousins. Now Gabrielle is supposed to be all hung up on Ric, but yet she's entertaining thoughts about possibly getting together with another man? She eventually goes to see Ric, and she wants to know if they will have a future together. He figures out quickly that she's possibly thinking of another man; but this conversation takes place right after they had sex. Again: What. The. What.At this point, we're just about at the finish line of the book and it's pretty predictable from this point on. I wish I could have enjoyed this book because it really does have potential, but the execution was way off