Review: Give & Take.....the continuing saga....& ANGST!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2013
This all started out so nice.  Merrick and Rachael are opening the island resort, all the work involved, and a blossoming more mature romance.  I loved it and then it went south!  I also didn't care for how Shannon acted at the opening - made her look very skanky when it might have been important to be by her best friends side.At the end when it falls apart for them and Merrick leaves; really?  It seemed odd that he'd leave after everything he did to keep Rachael and then again he saw her leaving even for a night as what.....betrayal?  The whole scenario with the father buying up all the properties and then a 20 year old son was sure different.  I'm sure there is much that will come out in book three which I believe will be centered around Merrick and Rachael.  Wish that was the book coming out soon - but book two is centered around MJ (Merrick's unknown son).There are some open issues left for us readers:Why is Merrick so against his father that when Rachael goes to talk to the man it becomes a deal-breaker and Merrick leaves the island (and Rachael)?How the heck could Merrick's father keep the fact that Merrick has a son who is a full grown man?  I'm shaking my head on this one.After all the hoopla over the opening of the island resort why would Rachael just leave to go see Merrick's father and why would Merrick's sister insist that Rachael go - like 'right now go'?  I didn't really feel any love between Merrick and his sister.  Why is Merrick so screwed up??Looking forward to the next book.  Thank you dear authoress.RANT:Really....this snippet should have been included in the first book and I wonder why it wasn't and then decided it must have been an afterthought that bridged the series to book two (which is MJ's story - Merrick's unknown son).  The first book could have been the only book because it ended HEA, so I thought.  I don't know this for sure but I'm thinking it'd been picked up by a publisher and marketed for serialization (the current trend in romance ebooks).  As it stands this little addition is essential to the continuing story and I wish the publisher would have reissued book one with this at the end.  Paying two bucks for about 45 Kindle pages is overpriced and being that this snippet is definitely a part of the continuing saga means the readers are being squeezed a bit much.  Even placing it at the end of the first book and adding an extra buck to the price would have been more palatable.END OF RANT