Review: Couldn't relate to the characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2013
First PositionThe story centres on Emory and Mason - college sweethearts who broke up and have just literally ran into each other after 6 years apart.Mason is an NFL player and Emory was a dancer but after an injury cut her career short she is now a photographer. Throughout the course of the story we get little snippets that tell us how their relationship ended, which was quite abrupt to say the least!Mason regrets ending his relationship with Emory back in college and would love to get a second chance with her; however there is the small matter of his soon to be ex-wife getting in the way.Emory still loves Mason, and was left heartbroken when he left her. She is adamant that she won't let him back in again but it isn't long before she is allowing him back in her life.The story is told from a third party point of view and there are lots of other characters involved that we get to hear from such as Mason's brother, sister in law, and mother as well as Emory's gay BFF. This made it all rather confusing and there were times where I wasn't sure whose narrative I was reading.I found it hard to really get into the story - I didn't warm to any of the characters. Mason was all alpha male when he thought some guy was looking at or touching Emory, yet he was a total mamma's boy when it came to standing up to his mother when she made her feelings about Emory known. He and Emory were supposedly very deeply in love and planning a life together after college, so I couldn't quite get my head around how abruptly their relationship ended, over something that was quite trivial and could have been worked through. I know the story is about second chance love so obviously if they hadn't broken up there would be no story, but maybe the reason for the break up could have been more drastic.I thought Emory was very hypocritical, in that she would hit the roof when she discovered things that Mason had neglected to tell her (nothing major, such as being offered more money to move to a different NFL team) yet she was keeping a massive secret from him, and only spilled the beans when she thought a reporter was going to do it so beat him to it.I don't know, maybe I'm in the minority because lots of people are loving this book from the 4 & 5 star ratings it has on Goodreads, but unfortunately I can only give it 3 stars.************************ review copy supplied by author **********************