Review: Surprising…
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2013
This book really surprised me because it was - Just ok.Maybe I expected too much from this book. I’ve been waiting for it for months; following the blog tours, reading every snippet the author released, and entering myself in every giveaway just to see if I could get it early.But when I actually did get my hands on it, I was surprised by how much I didn’t like it. It wasn’t bad, but I felt that everything was kind of clichéd and predictable.The book started with Layla, now 31 and living in NJ, going to Trips’ father’s funeral. Before they’ve even said two words to each other they knew that they are meant to be together, and from then on they just were. The beginning was actually my favorite part, mainly because I didn’t see it coming. I thought it would take a while for them to start up their relationship again, kind of like the last book, but instead they dove in. But after that nothing really did it for me, the lines were too cutesy, bordering on cheesy, and I knew right away what the characters were going to fight about.There was just nothing surprising about the book. The first three had me constantly wondering what Layla was going to say next, or what they were really feeling and what they were going to do. But in this one I just knew. I felt like I had read this book before, even down to the very predictable ending.I stayed up all night reading this book, hoping that I would grow to love it, but I didn’t. But even with all that said, I’m happy that we left the characters in a good place, I would’ve been even more upset if we didn’t get the happy ending, but we got it, and for that I’m happy.