Review: Okay... Now what...???
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2012
I feel like someone has pulled a really mean joke on me. I mean a really really mean one. This surely cannot be a book written by MY LaTrivia Nelson. I've read the book twice and I'm still confused.., This feels so disjunctive and foreign in relation to the rest of this series. Maybe it was the time away? Maybe its the personal life changes? Maybe it's that you can't "keep" lightning bottled up (although LaTrivia has done it, seemingly easily, for some time now). I'm just shocked at how un-Nelson this one was.I can not believe the writer who gave us Brett and Courtney (The Grunt), Mitch and LaToya (Ugly Girlfriend) and MY GOD MY GOD the spectacular couple Hunter and Stacey (Opa!) also gave us Sully and Charlie. The characters in this book were not fleshed out and I really felt like the book was way too chopped up to get to know them. Almost like the best writer in this genre wrote it because she had too and not be because she wanted to. There was no heart in this one. At least not the heart that Nelson showed us in the last three books, The plot although good in theory just didn't work. I wasn't invested in the characters enough to care if they made it work. The book lacked passion and romance. There was no real relationship exploration and it almost felt like I was reading a cut and pasted sory about one dimensional characters.It feels as if OUR LaTrivia has given up on the power and promise of love. I believe the Lonely Heart series can be redeemed! I read the Medlov series just as a holdover until this series came back. Disappointed with the results.My review is about as chaotic and random as the book was.... Mainly because I'm still in disbelief and shock that MY LaTrivia could have written this. I'm just going to believe that someone has falsely published in her name. Therefore, in my mind Nelson is still the best writer out there for this genre. This didn't come from her fingertips or keyboard and that this book never happened!!!!Three stars just because I couldn't Imagive giving Nelson anything less. Her whole body of work demands that much, but this book is easily a 1 star or less. Easily. This book was amature at best and LaTrivia Nelson is NOT an amature.Read at your own risk....