Review: pleasant
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2012
Hokay, so...to start Dean and Kelly are the couple that aren't supposed to work. She's a showgirl (of the clean PG variety) and he's some rich guy who lives in Boston. The problem is they were married but he has no clue about it so she goes off to find him. There's a great premise. The thing keeping this from being a 5 star for me is that Dean has married this woman, learns about her, learns about what happened to her parents, has investigated her to see she's not exactly rolling in the money (but she didn't trap him) and even still has NO emotions. None.A decent responsible guy, like he is mentioned every other page to be, would have at least offered to help his wife with her mother's medical bills or something. Dean doesn't. That kind of stuck in my craw, so to speak. Then there is the secondary sort of love lust romance between Felicia, who doesn't want love from anyone rather a business association that happens to be called marraige, and Troy who is supposed to be as fickle as they come, but who has good reason. Supposedly.You'd have to read it for yourself because my real bones with this would be massive spoilers. So the story moved along at a brisk trot, you can see exactly where Kelly is coming from. After about 50% you can sort of see where Dean is coming from. His little half brother Robby and father kirk are secondary characters, though Robby seems to have a bit more fleshed out character description. Kirk is the man you're supposed to hate but there's not enough detail for me to work up a full head of steam about him. Overall good plot but it could have gone into a bit more motivations for the characters that weren't Kelly or Troy.