Review: Did I Read A Different Story Than Everyone Else?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
KISS ME, I'M YOURS is the second book in the 'Tennessee Waltz' series but can easily be read alone.  Sophie Bowen is the owner of an yoga studio when she finds out that her boyfriend, Kevin, is messing around on the sly with one of her clients.  He was working off some loans with Sophie and she fears he has stolen money.  Then she finds out that the IRS is going to perform an audit and is afraid she will lose her business.So what does Sophie do?  Go out with some employees/BFFs and get drunk, of course.  But before the night is over she has an accident and finds herself in another time period: it is now 1865 and the Civil War ended three months ago. She finds herself saved from a tragic moment by a farmer, Gabriel, and a mute twelve year old girl.Suspend your disbelief because the heroine, for most of the story, comes across as whiny and abrasive.  She is scared and this is the way she handles her fear; her mouth rules her actions.  She wants nothing more than to return to the present time.  This goes on for about 80% of the story.I'm going out on a limb with my review and say that I was very disappointed with  KISS ME, I'M YOURS.  The plot felt disjointed, the heroine was unlikable, and there was little chemistry between Sophie and Gabriel.  Nothing seemed to click.When you mix the chick-lit genre with a time-travel, fantasy, and historical romance theme you are playing with fire.  It takes some skill to make it work.  First and foremost, you have to make the characters believable.  And you have to make the reader care about what happens to them.  Neither of those ideas worked for me.That said, I loved KISS ME, I'M IRISH.  The author took a hodgepodge of genres, melted them together and made the story work.  I rated it five stars and consider it a keeper.  Not so with this second story; I trudged through the book.  I hoped against hope that it would get better.  It didn't.  And unfortunately, I am no longer excited enough to continue with the series.