Review: Great idea but falls flat
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2012
It was really hard to get through this book.  The setup looked so promising.  But when I realized that I was bored most of the time I was reading it, it kind of makes me think that the importance of plot is not so high when the dialogue and actions are so very lacking.  The heroine for some unknown reason falls in love with the hero, when throughout the book I kept thinking that the ease with which she bantered with the hero's "cousin" was so much more free and fun.  The love between the main characters was so boring that I feel like Atwell created non existent problems for them to deal with.  The reason the hero has trouble saying "I love you", etc. is hard to believe. And naturally, the characters always have some reason for not speaking their feelings (however convoluted their thought process is).It's always hard to summarize why I don't enjoy a novel.  But basically, if I realize that I don't look forward to picking the book up, or get consistently let down with character interactions, it just speaks for itself.  This is exactly what happened.  No heart melting moments, laugh out loud moments, or tissue grabbing moments.  A very unemotional ride all the way through.