Review: Disappointing.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
I received an early complimentary copy for an honest review.This was an unraveled mess of a book. It started out depressing with some sort of Cinderella-esque misery in which the heroine was mired. Plucky though she was, it was awful to read about her mother's deteriorating health and terminal disease. Then there was the dyslexia and lack of resources, add the awful step-brother, add to this the danger of her job and then throw in the hero who appears out of nowhere to promise a lot of filthy sex but no connection. The hero too was isolated, completely by circumstance and also by choice, he seemed to have some friends but this was not detailed in any depth so as secondary characters they lacked interest. The characters had potential but did not reach it. All I could think of at the end of the book was a scenario where if you went into a store to buy a sweater for warmth and that looks nice, go home and open the bag and saw that you somehow ended up with a random-holey-mess, threads hanging and trailing, with the promise of the rest of the sweater to come, maybe, maybe not.....then this is the same disappointing feeling I walked away from this book with.