Review: A bit unsatisfying
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
With Christmas come and gone, I turned my attention to a little novella highlighting the next holiday: New Year’s Eve. Kiss Me at Midnight by Diane Alberts is a fast read that I got through in just a couple hours during some down time at the in-laws house. Personally, I’m a little on the fence. There weren’t any major issues, but it didn’t catch me by the heartstrings either. I tend to enjoy more of the sweet romances vs. the dirty sex scenes and I think that was my biggest stumbling block.Right from the get go we’re introduced to a leading lady who is setting out to get laid on New Year’s Eve. Same with our leading gentleman. Two people searching for a one night stand and they find each other at the local bar… but they happen to have a history. Ashley and Ethan were best friends in high school until one day Ethan just stopped talking to Ashley and basically cut her out of his life. He moved away after graduation, tired of being bullied and picked on by his small-town peers. Eight years later he’s back visiting family for the holidays and apparently trolling for booty in the local bar.Ethan explains the cause of his abandonment and all of a sudden everything’s fine and Ashley’s all set to forgive and jump in bed with him. Ethan definitely gave me whiplash. One second he’s a nerd, then a dirty sex god, then an a-hole who walks out before the sheets cool, then a sweetheart kissing her cheek and taking her bowling. I felt like I could never keep up. I also thought it was a little odd that he supposedly had a stuttering issue but we really only saw it once. It seemed less tied to his character and more inserted when convenient as a plot device. I was also a little thrown off when Ethan was giving Ashley his condolences over losing her father one moment and a few seconds later is all over her trying to get her in bed. Literally seconds. Personally, talk of a deceased parent doesn’t put me in the mood for hot sex.Three stars. The writing was good and there was nothing that would turn me away from trying something else by the same author down the road. I just couldn’t quite connect with Ethan and a few sultry sex scenes weren’t enough to leave me satisfied.