Review: The characters are the thing!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2012
I really enjoyed this book, especially the wonderful characters. Jake abandoned Jenny just a couple days before their wedding and he remained absent for two long years. When he finally returns, hoping to renew their friendship, he fails to explain his actions. The carefree Jenny he loved has been transformed . . . into a CPA! Both Jake and Jenny suffered during their time apart, although Jake has a substantially more difficult return to normalcy, as his time away was spent in a darkly traumatic place. He also harbors a tragic secret that prevents him from pursuing a permanent relationship with the woman he still loves. I loved watching these characters find their way back to each other, as well as their personalities returning to what they once were. Good, strong, fascinating characters, especially Jake. The minor characters were fun, too. The problem with the book (outside of the typos, which never bother me much, especially for a cheap/free book))is the pacing of the book and the silliness about the helicopter mentioned in other reviews. If Jake isn't going to ride to the rescue of his beloved, then Jenny needs to rescue herself, or at least be more active than simply wondering "what shall I do?" The ending was also much too abrupt, as if the author reached her required word limit and simply quit. Personally, I prefer a bit more detail than "And they all lived happily ever after!" Despite the problems with the story, the characters were interesting enough to carry through. I enjoyed it enough to seek out some of the author's other books. (Honestly, I struggled between giving the book three or four stars, but 3 = okay, and 4 = I like it, so four won the day!)