Review: Pretty Good Start
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2013
I just finished Breaking Ellie last night and after a good night's sleep I feel like I am able to give an honest review.  There are things I liked and disliked but first let's get to what the story is about.Characters:Ellie is a 22 year old girl and is still living at home with her mother and stepfather, and is very sweet, kind and is dating Cane.Cane has been with her for a couple of years, they had a rough spot that they had to work through but all in all, has been a good relationship for the both of them. I really liked Cane too.  He loves her and has been there for her and vise versa.Reed is from Texas and has moved to Boston to gets some things under control in his life.  He is at a club when he literally runs into Ellie.  Sparks fly from the both of them.  Ellie is intrigued by him but is in a relationship with Cane and doesn't want to jeopardize that so she lets it go.  Reed on the other hand, doesn't care that she is in a relationship and wants her no matter if she is with someone or not.Tyler is her best friend.  He has a thing for her, and always has.  She doesn't want to ruin her relationship with him so she doesn't cross the line. He is funny, smart and very sexy.I honestly do not know who I would choose.While Cane and Ellie are at work (they basically all work together), Cane introduces her to the "new guy" which happens to be Reed.  Ellie is completely smitten and doesn't understand why she is feeling this way towards Reed when she loves Cane.  At this point in my mind I was thinking, crap she is going to cheat on Cane with Reed causing all sorts of drama.I honestly was going to stop reading it.  Im a glad I stuck with it.  I never saw it coming, Cane is the one that cheats on with an ex (the rough spot in their relationship when they first got together too!) which leaves open a spot for Reed.  I had been wondering how the author was going to play that in.I did feel sorry for Ellie, having to go through that again.  Cane, I felt sorry for him too.  He is genuinely a nice guy and didn't mean to do that to her, but he did cheat so that put him out of the running for me!Now to the Likes!I liked the relationship with Ellie and Reed.  I liked how they took their time with each other creating a good friendship before things progressed into something more.I really liked the style of writing from the author.  I was so used to she did this and he did that, it is refreshing to have it in first person.  A plus for me is it is in both point of views.  I just like the feel of this so you can see how they both are feeling.  I think she handled it very well with keeping up with this.Now to the Dislikes!Im a one man kinda girl and when it comes to cheating, that is a dead-end for me.  To me, once a cheater always a cheater so I didn't like that when Ellie and Reed are in this new relationship, they both end up cheating.  WTF.  I just didn't understand why that was done. I just feel like that was thrown out of left field for me.  I just didn't think it was needed in the story.  I thought it was progressing very well they way that it was.I also can understand cliffhangers; you want to keep people interested.  Most authors are doing this nowadays that it is expected and you can usually tell that this is going to happen. However I was not expecting it in this one.  It was given to me for an honest review that I didn't even read a synopsis so I had no clue that it was going to have one.At certain points I felt like it was rushed and certain things at the end just got out of hand for me.  I was just expecting something else and was kinda disappointed that it was not going my way!  I know, I know, my issue not the author!After talking with a good friend about it, I decided to sleep on it to get my thoughts together.  I wanted to clear my head and not use my emotions in the heat of the moment type of deal because at the end of the day it was still a good read.I can say that the author did get me hooked.I cannot wait for the next installment to see what happensI give 4 stars for the story!I give 5 stars for the sexy parts!