Review: could have been great, but was not
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
This book could have been great, but was not. Why? Interesting characters up to a point, but their actions were not at all realistic. Each manipulated the other, yet no matter what, they just continued falling more in love. Lying to your mother that your girlfriend was going to convert to Judaism so she would accept her? Really? An even bigger downfall was that problems and challenges were resolved so quickly and neatly instead of what would have been complicated and messy in real life.A couple of scenes were really off - when the Grandma was all dressed up and ready to go shopping, then a couple of paragraphs later, was so sick she had to be put to bed. When they moved Rebecca to Richmond but seemed to forget about her car, but later, someone arranged to have it driven back to Tampa. There was one scene where the sentences just didn't make sense. I don't think it's fair to write a review if I didn't finish the book, so I did, but was rushing to get to the end, which was completely lackluster.