Review: Unbelievable story and characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2013
Oh, what to say, I wanted so much to like this book. Again it happened to me that I liked the plot, liked the cover, was happy with my download... until I started to read it.Jess's husband was murdered shortly after their wedding. She is desperate, even tries to kill his murderer and afterwards discovers she is pregnant.Murderer's brother Dan offers to marry her in order to save her child being given to the care of her father-in-law.Great plot, I thought. I was expecting a lot of interaction between the characters, situation that will discover their background, thoughts, fears, true character.Instead what I found was a completely unrealistic and unbelievable story with almost absurd plot twists.Dan is thrown into the story just like that, no introduction, no developments that would enable the reader to relate to him. Dan's decision to marry Jess and her friends' acceptance, everything is happening without the proper story build up.Jess is doing nothing, just going shopping, at one point she doesn't have a clue what she needs for her baby?! How believable is that?Author's obsession with brownies is annoying. Like they are some sort of magical cure for everything. Jess's exaggerated love for them makes her character even less appealing. She is anyway not the strong female character she would have to be in the real life, if confronted with some of the situations from the book.I am sorry I wasted my time. I was hoping it will get better and that is the only reason why I ended up finishing it.