Review: A real Eye-Roller
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2012
This earns an eye-roll score of 5, but a literary score of only 2.  The plot line is absurd, and is just a vehicle to deliver sexual content.An eye-roll is what you do when you read another contrived plot point that is just too absurd to have any validity.  Oh don't get me wrong - I know you can spot a person, and feel some instant chemistry, but the extent and intensity of the physical reaction is seldom the life altering, end-of-the-world experience portrayed.After agreeing to participate in this study (which really doesn't make a lot of sense) Ivy promptly breaks one of the rules, because she can't wait one day to see her partner.  Oh pul-leese.  She finds herself alone in an elevator with him.  They both recognize the other, even after seeing just a picture, and the sexual tension is over the top.  This quote is from the end of a 10 story elevator ride together, when she is seeing him for the first time."....... Ivy backed up until her backside smacked against the elevator's mahogany wall.  The full contact of the wall cooled the trickle of perspiration beading down her back.  The abrupt chilling of heated skin shot a convulsive shiver through her.  She feared it wasn't simply her dampened skin that made her quake in a carnal explosion....."  We pause this quote for an eye-roll.From the Didja Notice department ......When someone has through a lot, it is compared to being run through the WRINGER - not a ringer.  Sadly, there are probably not enough people who read this book that will have any idea what a wringer is.  But the author, editor, and proofreader - all missed it.loc 2530 Chapter 12 - Kip is explaining why he is in the study, and tells Ivy "Kip saved my life one time".  Wasn't it Jason who saved Kip's life?From the Loose Ends department - Ivy's brother - I expected him to show up at any moment, but turns out, he apparently had no part in this story, except something else to talk about for a break in the action.  Not sure why he was even in the story.With the author's credentials, I guess I was expecting a more cohesive book, with a better plot line to tie it all together.  The potential is there, but there are just too many flaws in the supposed study, which is the track this wild train is supposed to be riding on.