Review: Did Not Finish
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
This book is a DNF for me.  The heroine is an angst-y soon-to-be college graduate.  Now here is a general rant about this age.  I was this age once.  I also graduated from college at this age. I didn't know crap, either, but I'd like to think that there was more to life than guys, dating, and angst.  I don't remember a lot of angst.  I remember being scared of being a real, live adult.  Making adult decisions.  Wondering where my life would take me.  I also remember giving up on ass holes that really didn't want to get to know me.  Why is there so much of that in newly published books that I read today?  If a woman is smart enough to put up with the BS and actually graduate from college, then she is smart enough to fill her life with things that matter.  If she doesn't fill her life up this way, then she is still a Freshman.I got to the part of the book where the hero and heroine hop into bed and give each other oral sex.  It was a well written scene, but geeze.  The hero is thirty.  He's been around the block and this is his little sister's best friend.  I've never done any of my brother's friends, and he has never done any of my friends because that would just be icky and weird.  I get that they're not related, and that they share a past.  However, some more dialogue about feelings need to be explored before they start bumping uglies.  I think this makes the hero look like an ass-hat.  Seriously.  You turn up in your little sister's best friend's room and get your rocks off.  This makes no sense.When have we gotten so dishonest about feelings in romance novels?  Sure, I get that there needs to be some tension, but working out/on a relationship is part of the romance to me.  Remember the wisdom of Mrs. Potts:  "...just a little change, small to say the least.  Tale as old as time...."  Yeah, we're reinventing the wheel every time someone puts a romance novel together.  The story should be about how the characters become better people with one another--and sex thrown in as well--not about how they hop in the sack the first chance they get.  I doesn't really move the story line of the romance and change parts.Call me old. Call me old-fashioned.  But Twilight and 50 Shades did nothing to help us along.  Now we get inept heroines who can't take control of their lives and women who are so submissive that they would do anything for a man.  Our suffragette grandmothers are rolling over in their graves right now.  Bring back the heroine that can take control of her life and her destiny and still gets her man at the end.  That is the best kind of romance.****There are tons of books out there right now that reflect this genre, Ms. Cooper's just happens to be the book that I downloaded and singled out for a rant.  Cooper has the potential to be an excellent writer. I would recommend that she find a writing or editing group to help her out because with some practice and refinement, she could be a great author.