Review: Couldn't finish it
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
I rarely write a bad review, and if someone else had felt the way I did then I probably wouldn't do this. I'm going to be honest and say I only read about twenty percent of this book, so my review is based on that. I went into this story having high hopes given the high reviews, and therefore I'm hoping with this review to not put someone off buying this book (which I'm sure the author worked very hard on) but to offer a bit of variety in what to expect.Firstly my impression on Frankie was very mild. She fought off attackers, had a big mouth (at least at the bar) on her and seemed to show some inner strength and smarts when she intentionally decides to live in a bad neighbourhood. But she was inconsistent. What type of FBI agent who specialises in undercover can't help but be drunk off one drink? Who doesn't state that they're a cop right to begin with when you have two aggressive men ready to attack you?Then there is her mother. She's willing to give up a man she loves, while pregnant because she wants to focus on her career and she basically ignores her daughter completely. It didn't line up with who she was meant to be. Either she should have tried to make it work with the father (free babysitter!), had an abortion or just gave Frankie up for adoption. Keeping her to herself, not telling the father and then ignoring her kid for her entire life didn't make any sense.Meeting her stepmother and father. I haven't been in this situation, but I'd imagine you wouldn't immediately consider your step mum as such, but rather just call her by her name (even in internal dialogue) and it rang so untrue calling her father dad during their first meeting. This was a man she just met and had only found out days previous that this was her father. That entire situation felt insincere. The stepmother not caring at all about a hidden daughter of her husband and barely having any shock over the situation felt very false. It was like the author didn't want any drama from that, she she didn't put anything in. If someone was knocking on my door, and they were a long lost family relative (who no one had a clue about) I'd at least need to sit down, and chatting like it was no big deal wouldn't come naturally.I didn't get a real feel for the main love interest, but it didn't feel right that he'd been put with Frankie given he is not a cop. Perhaps that is better explained as it goes on. I also find it hard to believe that Frankie's boss, a man that works for the FBI, was angry that she stepped in to save his brother. While I understand that he'd be upset that his brothers life is now is trouble and he and his family had to be placed in witness protection, I don't get why he wasn't angry about what his brother was being put through, and that his brother never came to him for help. Frankie stepping in was the right thing to do, and to tell her off in front of two other cops felt silly.Okay, I think that is enough complaining. I don't want to put Mimi off writing, I am one person and one opinion, I'm clearly in the minority, and I don't want to take any sales away from this author. I'm stating my opinion, and I'm hoping that perhaps someone else will go into this story without expecting the five star read they might assume they'll get. I wish Mimi the best of luck for her future stories, but unfortunately this was not for me.