Review: A little drawn out
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
I picked this book up via one of the online sites I subscribe to. It was a freebie and I took a chance. It wasn't a bad story but it did drag at times. It wasn't unputdownable as so many of the other reviewers said, in fact I kept getting up because I was irritated. Although I felt sorry for the h and all she'd been through, she was incredibly stubborn and closed and it did get on my nerves.Briefly the h has had a very tough life and even had to live on the streets at times. She claws her way up and manages to get an education. In this story she is trying to put herself through college whilst taking care of her 6 year old brother, whom she has custody of. She meets the H randomly and there is chemistry. One of the ways she has been making money is by helping a blackmailer get money from parents of children, who'd previously given up their children for adoption. The scam is that these parents don't want their families to know about the children they'd given up and were prepared to pay to keep it quiet. The h is trying to get out of the arrangement but the blackmailer is also blackmailing her. Coincidentally one of their marks is the H's mother. The H and h begin seeing each other and so the story goes on.I think the author had us take a few too many leaps with this book. I mean how realistic is it that there are that many people trying to keep 'secret' children quiet and we all know that that information isn't easy to access. Anyway the book is well written, it's clean and isn't full of mistakes.