Review: Gator
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2014
2.5 StarsThe only other book I've read from this author is Damaged and the Beast, which I surprisingly ended up liking despite my annoyance with the New Adult genre. I already know going in that the author's characters (especially the heroines) are often emotionally damaged with abused pasts but I did not expect this book to be this heavy in terms of the heroine being a prostitute who is also mentally slow. Not only that, she was a child prostitute pimped by her own parents. Needless to say, this was not an easy read for me.I'm glad that both characters found happiness with each other but at the same time I had trouble connecting with them and I'm actually having a hard time explaining why so for now, I'll write a brief review.I feel for both Gator and Mia, they had a horrible childhood but other than sympathy for what they've been through I just couldn't connect with the romance even when I'm able to read both perspectives. Everything was just too instant and maybe it can be blamed on the book being too short for the heavy subject matter, I don't know...but their relationship had little to no development emotionally.This book was just lacking in emotional depth for me, it's like watching a dramatic foreign movie without the subtitles. You see the movie's emotions unraveling right in front of you but without understanding the words, you just can't feel what it wants you to feel.