Review: This book drove me crazy... but I enjoyed every moment of it!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2014
This book kind of drove me crazy. I didn’t fall in love with Cruz until the end and I thought Harlow (despite loving her name) was just as stuck up as Cruz imagined her being at the beginning of the book. But the thing about this book is that I adored their story. It wasn’t a perfect book and it didn’t make me overly swoon, well except for Harlow’s brother, I kind of swooned on him a bit. But it has a great story. I thought long and hard about my star rating on this one because as much as I did enjoy the story, there were a few things that just kept throwing me off.So here’s the thing… I was so not picturing any military man in this book at all, infact by the way he described himself, I had a hard time picturing Cruz in a uniform of any sort, let alone a military. The rent-a-cop gig, I could picture. I just pictured him more as a temporary kind of guy. One that wasn’t around long enough to make the kind of commitment that the military requires. He had the mouth of a sailor and just in general didn’t seem like a decent person. He was cocky, arrogent, rude and a man-whore. There is a difference in my mind between letting loose and being a jackass. Cruz’s character just blurred that line a little too much. Now that I have said all that, I am going to turn around and tell you that it takes a special kind of guy to own up to his mistakes and to want to try and make things better. He sees what he has done and just wants to fix it and that I completely admired about his character. There was redemption in his character and that made me smile. He character changed so drastically from the beginning of the book to the end of it. But I guess that is the point.Then we have to look at the flip side of the coin. Though I thought Harlow was a snob in the beginning with her five-dollar words, her character grew on me more and more. She wasn’t strong, she was trying to be. She was broken on the inside from her past and was trying on her own to get better. What I liked about that is she wasn’t trying to do it with a guy or for a guy, but that guy sure did help!I was a little surprised that the first thing you read in this book is a sex scene. I stopped and thought, ok. That’s one heck of a beginning…it was definatley attention grabbing. It wasn’t bad, but it was so unexpected to open up a book to two people going at it in a bathroom… but obviously it caught my attention and I was intrigued with where the story was going to go from there. It was a unique catch at the beginning.I did love the alternating points of view in the book. I liked reading both perspectives of the story and I liked the overall premise of the story. Over all it was a great story, with some serious steam. I am looking forward to the next book to find out what happens to this couple or not couple…*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review