Review: Romance with depth
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2014
From the first few lines of Neeny Boucher’s “Lost in Flight (The Complicated Love Series)” you know it’s going to be anything but a typical romance.  When Christina Martin wakes up after a girl’s night out in ex-husband’s, Riley, bed it’s definitely time for a review of her life.Boucher’s story provides plenty of romance, but it also delves deep into the background of Christina and her ex Riley.  She accurately related the characters rollercoaster-like relationship, up to and including their divorce and life after.  Boucher creates believable characters in Christina and Riley, and the interactions between them, even when some of their choices feel a bit off.Life is never simple, and neither are relationships.  Boucher has a firm grasp on the intricacies of both attraction and obstacles that can bring a couple together and tear them apart.  The bulk of the story is told through flashbacks to previous events that reveal more and more about the characters and their lives together and apart.  Some readers might be put off by the jumps in the timeline leading up to the present, but once you get a feel for the rhythms, they flow nicely.  Some of the sudden shifts in point-of-view, however, could have been handled better to avoid jarring the reader.  Christina has past issues, to be certain, but she also had drive and goals that make her current circumstances the perfect starting point for past reflection.Boucher has created a very realistic world with living and breathing characters that inhabit it.  She’s crafted a romantic story around two very relatable characters.  Their relationship is believable because of how complicated it is.