Review: Glad it was free
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2012
I read the reviews for the book and figured since it was free I would try it out.  I don't know what book everyone else read but it wasn't the same book I read.  The premise is a good one but the character development was incomplete and really only hinted at.  You never had to wonder who the characters where talking to because they constantly used the name of the person they were talking to.  Who does that?  I know Lexie is talking to Jake and I know Jake is talking to Lexie, they don't have to say there names every time.  If I was playing a drinking game while reading this book I would have passed out and liked the book much more.  There was a bit of continuity problem as well.  In one scene Jake is holding Lexie's hands above her head and then it tells you that she puts her arms around his neck and pulls her close to him.  Then it tells you that Jake lets go of her hands and puts them around his neck.  I thought she already did that.  And don't get me started on the punctuation problems.  One sentence actually had a period and a question mark.  So was the sentence a statement, a question, or both?  The dialogue to me felt like it was written by a teenager instead of an adult.  I finished the book but it was more out of curiosity to see what else would make me roll my eyes then the actual story itself.  The writer did do a passable job of trying to make you think who the bad guy was so that when it was revealed you might have the wrong person.  But again, even the bad guy was never really explained.  Did he really have a family or was that just part of the cover story?  Some writers go into too much detail, well in my opinion, this writer didn't give enough.  Wouldn't read the next one even if it was free.