Review: Tough to get through!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2013
This was a tough book for me to get through. I bought this is a Contemporary Romance Boxed Set with two other novels, and I can't really see myself going back and trying to read the other two. The premise of the story was good, I liked some of the characters and there were some ok parts to the book, but quite frankly the main character Christine drove me absolutely batty! I was so irritated with her by midway through the book, I almost wanted to throw my Kindle across the room. She was just a hot mess and if Derek, the main male character had any sense, he would have told her to get out and stay out of his life! I get that she was hurt by her ex-husband. There are very few of us out there who haven't been hurt by someone, but that does not give us an excuse to behave the way that she did. I understand that the author was trying to convey a point...Christine was AFRAID to get romantically involved...however, there is such a thing as overkill and overkill she did! I was also a little disappointed with the storyline about Anne, Christine's mother. She never gave her Italian romantic interest a chance to explain himself and that romance ended so abruptly. Another sore spot for me was that there were some good parts of the story that the author could have expanded on, such as when Nicole (Christine's daughter) was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend, but she just breezed through those parts quickly and returned to Christine changing her mind regarding her feelings toward Derek, again and again and again. There are too many great novels out there to waste your time reading this one.