Review: A little too heavy on the 'heavy' issues.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2013
The book is full of hot, steamy, erotic sex. For the first half of the book I wasn't that keen on Cole. He had an abrupt way of talking to Christy that I found a bit off putting but once I got to read about his childhood and why he doesn't like to get close to women i started to soften towards him and once he falls for Christy and his walls come tumbling down, I fell a little in love with him myself!Christy has an overeating disorder. Although it is over 5 years since she was overweight, she is very insecure about her body and eats food that has no sugar in it. Bascially, I'm not sure what she actually eats as she says no to just about every type of food. She tells Cole early on about her overeating disorder and he is sympathetic. He tries his best to reassure her how beautiful she is to him and how sexy he finds her body but her insecurity goes on a bit too long in my opinion and there is far too much about her eating disorder. I started to skip these parts as they were becoming repetitive and I'm not sure we needed to be told over and over about how much she used to eat and why. We're told she was 200lbs (14 stone) at her heaviest. The way she talks, it makes it sounds like she used to be 26 stone or something! I'm not making light of an overeating disorder, but it seemed a bit OTT to me.That said, I did like Christy's character and the humour in the book. I laughed at Cole's first pet name for Christy and a part of her anatomy!Cole's mother abandoned him and his brothers when he was young. He now has a fear of women leavng and so doesn't let himself get close to women. He has sex with them but doesn't kiss them much and doesn't cuddle them afterwards but from the beginning with Christy he can't stop kissing her and he likes cuddling her after sex and having her stay the night. I liked how long this book was and how the story was paced. None of it seem rushed, I like that in a novel.