Review: Great read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2014
I am giving this book 3.99 stars.. It could have been a 4 star read for me, because I really did like the theme and the plot, but I found the delivery of this book a bit lacking and it could have been a 5 star if it had been done a bit better.The author of this story has a lot of books released, so I was a little confused how some of the grammatical errors existed, but I am not one who picks at that stuff.. I can look past it.. I have a hard time when I feel like the book dwells on certain points, or drags out parts in unnecessary areas. Take the introduction of Melissa, I felt the paragraph that introduced her was enough, she was a good friend, but then we had to know how they met and it felt odd the way that it was placed in there. I also felt at times that the writing seemed to be a bit rushed, and that someone much younger was doing the writing. The steam heated up towards the end, but the first half of the book felt very YA.Now that I got that out of the way. I loved the story.. I love a good love triangle.. I do.. I loved Brooks though right from the get go.. He was sexy even when he was a weird teenager playing video games and torturing Katy.Branch is who she dates growing up, after tragedy pretty much uproots her life, she decides that there is no reason for them not to be together, he is the twin that makes most sense.. right? The whole twist of the book is that she is VERY wrong.She ends up sleeping with the wrong brother as described in the description of the book on her wedding night, and runs from town and Branch and Brooks as well as their very loving family, because she feels that she followed her heart, but that in doing so she will be the cause of their family falling apart.. She ends up in a cozy little southern town and has every intention of starting her life over.. The only person she has any contact with is, her best friend Melissa, who she promises to contact once a month.She ends up pregnant and married to a man named Bobby.. I won't spoil that whole relationship, but I found him slightly sweet to begin with, and I wanted to like him, but like Katy I was still fiction crushing on Brooks, so it made it hard. Sarah was a woman she met and became a best friend for Katy while she was pregnant and just trying to move on with her life..brooks comes back, again no need to spoil how or why that happens.. It just does, and from there the story really picks up and I really enjoyed it. I felt that them not being together was wrong, but I understood why everything was happeneing.. Everything needed to happen the way that it was. Life lessons do that to you..I absolutely LOVED B, she is the sweetest little girl and Katy is such a good mom. It's nice to see that Katy even dealing with what she was, was a good mother and never let what she was put through get in the way of her doing her job as a parent.The ending was fast.. Or fast ish.. I felt that the Bobby thing ended where it needed to, but Brooks mother's confession really confused me and was a bit.. sad..let me touch on Branch real quick. i thought he was a dick for what he did to Katy.. He lied to her for years, and i felt that him jumping into it with Melissa bothered me just a bit.. Melissa seemed to be a nice girl, and we were suppose to like her, but I felt that she was just looking for one of the boys to sleep with and she didn't care which one.. Branch's conversation with Katy near the end of the book was touching, and you could tell that he loved her, that it was all a competition in his eyes, but still the way that he did everything was just sad and wrong and caused a lot of people pain. I don't want to read a book about he and Melissa, so I hope the author doesn't lead with one..But I would sure love more Brooks and Katy!