Review: Love Is an Emotional Pingpong Match
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2013
Alyssa Kress is a writer with a lot of potential. Even though I knew exactly how the story would end, the plot is formulaic, and the characters are almost stereotypes, I finished the story. It is not riddled with grammar, spelling and punctuation errors -- but that alone is not enough to keep me reading.Kelly, the female protagonist, is sweet. She's genuinely interested in and cares for other people. Kelly is the main reason I kept reading.Dean, the bluebood, is so heavily repressed, it's hard to imagine how he became a self-made man. Building a business also requires trust and creating relationships, so I am a little puzzled how he made it on his own, with seemingly not even a best friend.Dean, in particular, can go from believing Kelly is a gold-digger to thinking she's sweetly innocent and back again in the course of a paragraph. Kelly's interior monologue is similarly bipolar and repetitive.A subplot has Dean's cousin Troy and a Blue-blood debutante on a similar emotional track. It's like being the ball in a pinball game to be inside these folks' emotions.The motivation's of Dean's father, Kirk, made little sense to me, but he's a minor character with a role only at the end.In conclusion, Alyssa Kress has the right stuff -- and the write stuff. A bit of digging deeper into character motivations would go a long way to strengthening this work.