Review: Not good
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
I have never left a poor review before, but I have to be honest: this book was not good!I read the blurb and thought the storyline would be interesting to follow. But within the first few chapters, this story annoyed the heck out of me! Samantha, just about to turn 30, wonders how and why she hasn't met the love of her life yet. With less than 17 hours till her birthday, she plans to throw a birthday party, in hopes of everyone she knows brings an eligible bachelor for her to meet.Samantha sounded more like a teenage girl than a woman approaching 30. And the man she meets at the party- within hours she's gushing about how he's her soulmate, and the descriptions of him: "Those eyes, they're so kind and innocent, like a puppy dog, begging to be loved." Ugh! And her expectations are extremely too high: "If we're gonna spend the rest of our lives together" -yes, she is thinking this within hours of meeting him! She comes off as an overexcited teenager and the descriptions just keep getting more cheesy: "He flashes me his signature smile, complete with puppy dog eyes. I just wanna take him home and rub his belly!" Barf!!Even though I was contemplating not finishing the story, I wanted to give the book the benefit of the doubt. But I never felt the connection between Samantha and John, one sex scene she "moaned like an animal in the woods", and even though she learns through time travel when it's right to have sex with someone, she repeats her mistakes. She ends up cheating on him, and somehow it doesn't count because Marty is a sexologist and time travel erases everything.I am sure the author had the moral of the story in here: that one moment changes everything, and to wait to have sex when the timing is right. But Samantha was downright manipulative with it and not to mention annoying in general, so it missed the mark.