Review: Just ok
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
I will start by saying that this book was okay. Normally after reading a few things that make me mad or confused in a book I would just stop reading it, but for some reason I really wanted to finish this loooong book because of Brandon, yes the hero not the heroine. In fact Natalie (the heroine) was really annoying, she was rigid, boring, a goody two shoes and she was pretty much mean to Brandon all through the book. Putting him through hell, being kiddish and running away, she had a lot of inner turmoil and it played out in the most annoying way in her relationship with Brandon. I liked Brandon because he seemed like an all around good guy (except for his little drinking habit) but I feel like he had a problem walking away from women that brought nothing but grief to him, first with Sophia, who he repeatedly went back to then with Natalie who was just so rigid and confusing, contradicting herself and her feelings for Brandon the whole time, I just wanted the chick to get laid already so that she could loosen up! There were times where Natalie redeemed herself in the book and I actually liked her for a moment for finally growing a pair and then she would back peddle and act like a spineless emotional wreck again. At some point I couldn't see why Brandon would want the headache that would surely come with being with someone like her and **SPOILER ALERT** I really did not appreciate all they went through with each other and their parents just for their marriage to seemingly start going downhill after only a few months. I really felt cheated, and then the book ends on a cliffhanger??? I gave it 3 stars because there were some parts in the book where I really liked Natalie and felt their love and pull towards each other and I genuinely liked Brandon (something I can't say about Natalie). I didn't give it more because there seemed like there was so many pointless pages; and lastly I felt that for all the love these two characters had for each other their bond should have been strongest towards the end after they were finally married.