Review: A DNF for me...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2014
This book started out really good for me, drawing me in. But it seemed to fizzle somewhere around halfway through.At first, the dual POV was fine, but then it seemed to switch back and forth so much, it made me feel a little 'dizzy', I wished that it was a little more drawn out in each persons POV before switching, so maybe there wouldn't have been so much back and forth.I didn't like Fran's behavior towards Matt when they meet for the first time at the bar. And Matt didn't like it either. She starts laughing at him for a long time when she first meets him to the point that he wonders if she's plastered. Then, after just barely talking to him, she tells him he has a stick up his butt. He even wondered if he had made a mistake going up to her when he recognized her in the bar. She irritated me several times with her behavior.Fran had major issues from childhood and even flashbacks from them, and those issues never really seemed to be addressed until near the end. Her 'flashbacks' and 'freak out' moments really kind of interupted the flow of the story. I understand that she had issues, but I felt they really weren't addressed and so her freak out moments just seemed to happen, then she would be over them, and everyone would continue on with things, almost as if they didn't happen, until her one flashback moment near the end of the book, where she runs off to a storage room or some room in the bar that they were in. At that point, she finally confided in Matt about her childhood.I also wished that Matt was a little more 'alpha'. He just didn't seem that much of a 'manly-man', IMO. He also seemed to have a few issues with Fran's character and behavior, like her excessive drinking, but he never seemed to really address that. He says, right off the bat, that he is 'not a fan' when they start doing shots of tequila. And her drinking got a little annoying after awhile and pretty much turned me off, so I started to not like her as much, because it seemed she was always drinking.Because of all of this, and how the writing style of the book started to feel a little choppy near the end, I lost interest and was not able to completely finish it.