Review: Ok
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
This story isn't all it's cracked up to be, considering the reviews I was expecting something great! Not the case.This is the story of Tina and Nik. Tina is this obnoxiously cheerful person that feels totally unrealistic. Nik I liked. The premise of the book fell flat. I bought this thinking it was going to be about friends falling into love, nope...not even close. On the first day they meet Tina asks Nik to be her friend, and he realizes he's attracted to her, hence the "friend-zoned" premise, but seriously these two were pretty much in a relationship from the start. I mean who sits in a guys lap within days of meeting him? Who walks down the street with his arm around your shoulder, and yours around his back and other arm on his chest? Who hugs their friends this much? The thing tat finally formalized the relationship is her one half-a$$ed attempt to go out in a single date.Tina is obnoxious. No one realistically exists like this. She bakes cupcakes that seal an otherwise lost 700k advertising deal. Her cupcakes, and baking in general, have people worshipping her. She is constantly going up to her new friends for hugs and kisses. It was weird. Most of he emotions in this book were over done. For instance, at one point Tina is in the hospital, and her friend Nat walks in and drops to the ground on her knees and cries in relief until someone picks her up.At another point we have, completely random mind you, Tina's ex show up. At the same time that her father showed up. (Her father knew the ex was looking for her and flew from Cali to New York). The ex isn't dangerous, just a jerk who left her. So her father, her ex, and Nik all bump into each other at her house, the ex gets scared of and Tina asks her father if he's returning home...he was. Ummm did the author forget that the father just flew 6hrs to be there? Weird.The story was just trying to hard to be something. Before you get to comfortable with the whole friends turning into lovers you end up finding out that Nik is former Russian gang. As was his father. And someone seeking revenge on Nik becomes weirdly hooked on Tina.Tina is so obnoxiously charming and unresistably  loveable, and unbelievably naive.... She unwittingly befriends the head of the rival gang. The guy seeking revenge, Omar, falls in love with Tina. (Tina stupidly decides she can trap Omar with the help of her best friend, Nat. You idiot, ummm did you forget the intensive alarm system Nik installed because of Omar? Stupidly unbelievably naive).Nik and his buddies pair up perfectly with Tina and her buddies...everything is so *obnoxiously* perfect. Sorry, I keep using that word, but really the book was just trying too hard. In the end it's totally unrealistic. Not bad for the price, but way toooo long for the story being told. We got craploads of fluff that was going nowhere, so then the Russian gang and Omar angle popped up.