Review: Loved everything about it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2014
What to say about a book titled “Everything”?  Well… for starters… I LOVED just about everything in this book.  Ok… one thing, and I just can’t believe I’m gonna say this, it seems that recently I’ve found myself becoming bored with the romance (contemporary, paranormal, historical…) that are waaaay overloaded with graphic sex scenes…yep, Me…I know… I still can’t believe it myself.  Now, understand… it’s not that I don’t want to have some sizzling sexy bits in my romance reads… it just seems like a lot…and by a lot I’d say may 8 outta 10 authors are depending waaaay too much on the sex to hold the rest of the book together.  Almost as if they are writing a dozen or more sex scenes first… then filling the spots in between with bland, boring and predictable plotlines.  Have no fear…I’m not about to start campaigning for sexless romance novels… just maybe that authors try instead to initially write the foundation of their story first, leaving out any and all sexy bits, get it to their beta readers for feedback, and when, and only when the beta’s fall in love with the storyline … go back and sprinkle in your “dirty” for plot enhancement.  Cause let’s face it, it we compared the books I’m talking bout, to let’s say…a romantic relationship that was based 90% on sex… eventually it would be doomed to failure as well.Now… the reason I happen to include my crazed ranting with this review… is because, repeating my earlier statement, I LOVE just about everything about this book, the only thing that I would’ve made it even better… a little “dirty” sprinkled in.  The plot, characters and conflict & resolution were all done extremely well.  The author, Jeri Williams, infused so much emotion and personality into her characters… I had to remind myself that they were all fictional personas all created from a very talented mind.  Dacey, Aria, Tina, Wally & Ann, Trevor, Riley, Opal and Justin, just to name the base cast, were all so multi-dimensional and intriguing.  The plot and pace of the story was amazing and firmly engaged my attention.  I was so emotionally invested in this book that by the time I read the last page, I wanted nothing more than to immediately start reading the next book the author has planned for her characters.  Just to clarify… this book doesn’t really end on a “traditional” cliffhanger… but because Jeri left some of the situations unresolved, I couldn’t help but WANT to read more about how they will play out.  And totally didn’t feel the “sense of cliffhanger trickery” that many authors also seem to be employing in their books.Jeri… I am absolutely captivated with your characters and the lives you have created for them!  Please get the next book to us quickly… and if you were to decide to sprinkle a little dirty into an already phenomenally awesome story, I would totally NOT be hating that!  But, no pressure I’d still love it if ya didn’t!5 stars  ~Kathy