Review: 2.5 Stars - Story had so much potential
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2013
Initially, the product description led me to believe that the heroine Presley will meet the hero Braden for the first time in the book but as the story begins with the internal thoughts of the heroine, they have actually known each other a year. They work together at a restaurant and he has tried numerous times to get her to go out with him but so far she has resisted because she knows she wouldn't be able to trust such a womaniser.Whilst I liked the authors writing, she did far too much 'telling' and not enough 'showing' I was 17% into the story before any conversation even took place. A lot of that 17% was repetitive storytelling. In fact, I would say 90% of the story was Presley's internal thoughts. There was just not enough dialogue to really get a feel for the storyline which had so much potential.At first I thought it was going to be a bit like the S C Stephens book 'Thoughtless'. The description of the band members seemed similar and Braden had written a love song just for Presley and he even gets a tattoo for Presley (a rather unromantic one in my opinion!) but the distinct lack of dialogue just ruined what could have been a really good story.We are even 'told' rather than 'shown' the sex scenes. I did like Braden what little I knew of him but I didn't like Presley much. I couldn't believe in their love story or how they fell in love with one another as I didn't get to know the characters enough. The ending whist romantic just seemed a bit rushed.In future books I hope the author does more showing than telling as her writing definitely has potential.