Review: 2.5 stars, but I leaned to 3
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
*I was given a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.*WARNING: SPOILERSI loved the idea of this book and thought it would be a neat twist on Romeo and Juliet and also the class issues a la The Handmaid's Tale. It was neither.I finished the book 10 hours ago and I've already forgotten the character names, except for William. The dialogue was immature and the insta-love unbelievable. I believe in love at first sight, but not passionate, life-changing insta-love.Names were misused in awkward places. Words, especially verbs, were used wrong, and consistently in the wrong tense. It seemed like the author used a computer program to change all the verbs to past tense, even in sentences where the word is not a verb, but another part of speech. The formatting was jarring, in that, right in the middle of asentence, there would be a random paragraph break. See what I mean? Irritating, right? Now imagine pages upon pages of that.I would like to lodge a formal protest against cliffhanger endings, a modern tool that an author thinks will get you to buy into the rest of their series. Books in a series should individually have some form of satisfying ending. I invested all that time and got nothing at the end except To Be Continued... Seriously. She really wrote that instead of solving some of the plot issues. Who sent the girl a bomb? Why were William and his Blue housekeeper/lover arrested? Why are the mother-in-law and hubby's best friend blaming America's problems on one girl?The story is a great idea that needs to be completely rewritten and fully edited. A good support team would make all the difference for this author. That book I would read again.