Review: Quick, Okay read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Emma Anderson has spent years pretending to be happy with her life, spending all of her time working so she doesn't remember what happened to her and why she is all alone. After a 2 year relationship of no strings attached with Jake Knight she put an end to the relationship a few months ago. Now she is attending a wedding as a bridesmaid to Gabby, her childhood best friend, but what she doesn't know is that Jake is also attending the wedding and they will be forced to spend a week together. What will happen? Why has she ended the relationship if it's clear that she still has feelings for him? Will they be able to get closure or is this a good opportunity for them to come clean and realize that they belong together?When I read the blurb of this book, I thought it was interesting and I was curious to read it but as I started reading it I struggled to get into it and to like Emma - she seemed really cold, immature and selfish. Despite her sad story, I struggled to sympathize with her character but by the the end of the book my opinion had slightly changed, as I felt that her character changed a lot in a short period of time. With Jake, it was the opposite, at the beginning of the book, I sympathized with him, but by the end of it I was a bit frustrated with him because he seemed to change his mind a million times! First he said that he didn't want a permanent relationship with Emma or anyone, then he said that their relationship would be as permanent as Emma wanted, then he decided he couldn't do it because she deserved better, and then he changed his mind very quickly again... It's clear that both main characters have lots of baggage.I was a bit disappointed with the story and some things were weird to me, like with all the connections between her friend and her family with Jake's family and they didn't know of this connection before the wedding? Didn't her friend know where she worked? Also, I felt like Emma changed a lot very quickly, after spending so long keeping things to herself she started telling everything about her story very quickly and to people she had just met (like Jake's mother).I found myself a bit confused while reading this book at times. Sometimes the character was remembering something that happened a while ago and it wasn't clear when that started and ended. Because of this, I found myself asking what was happening and I had to go back a few pages to read again. Some transitions didn't seem very clear to me.What I liked the most about this book were witty conversations between Jake and Emma and I also liked the beginning of their story, when they kept meeting in different places.