Review: A lot of fun!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2013
Connectivity is a sweet and amusing contemporary adult romance staring Mary-Kate Grant (named after an Olsen twin) and British media mogul, William Cumberland, who has just purchased the company where MK works. The story reminded me a bit of a Sophie Kinsella novel, but with a bit less drama, and Mary-Kate was not quite as ridiculous as Kinsella's heroines (thankfully). Also MK is American and her dashing love interest is British, where it's usually the other way around in Kinsella's stories.I really like that this romance is virtually angst free, and totally devoid of love triangles. I enjoyed watching MK and William fall for each other. The tension and swoon was delicious. I also liked seeing how each of their ideals about life and work changed as they started to fall in love, and how they challenged and complimented each other.One small thing did drive me nuts while reading this story, however. It was the lack of conjunctions in the dialogue. Although I liked the way that MK and William flirted with each other by speaking formally, their general lack of conjunctions didn't feel authentic in their regular speech. Also, as much as I loved how angst free this story was, it does slow down in a few places, where I expected something bigger to happen. And then MK and William enter a mind warp near the end of the story and each do something so spectacularly stupid that I had to step away from the book before I could face them again, especially, MK. After a book void of excessive drama until that point, it was a tad jarring. Thankfully, it doesn't take them too long to come to their senses.Connectivity made me laugh and swoon, and left me with a big smile on my face. I would like to thank the author Aven Ellis for the opportunity to read this book. I don't often respond to individual requests for review, but her email to me was engaging and she'd actually looked at my reviews. I was impressed!Love Triangle Factor: NONECliffhanger Scale: Standalone