Review: No Originality - maybe a 2.75 star rating
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2011
This is more like a Harlequin Present kind of book done with a common blueprint for a contempory romance.  There are thousands of books just like it done with basically the same formula:Dominate male usually police, firefighter or military - checkMale just wants to have sex at first but can't help but fall in love because female is so sweet - checkShy, insecure female - checkDescriptive sex scenes, not too kinky, but enough to get the idea across - checkI think what really got to me was that while Amy was a divorced mother with a teenage daughter - she acted more like a born-again virgin.  To me, being a teacher would indicate that - yes, she should be discreet about her private life but to the extent that in five years she has never once dated?  That she is so submissive that despite saying NO numerous times she agrees almost immediately to being a "F*** Buddy" to a guy that spends most of his time coming to her house, having sex and then immediately leaving.  Considering that the only thing that they have going on is their "private parts" - I could not see the falling in love since they don't have anything else in common.While I enjoy reading Sci-Fi and paranormal books, in which a reader must be able to suspense belief, I could not do that in this Contemporary novel - to me it was just too stupid.  The only reason that I gave it between a 2 & 3 was that it did not have any major editing problems and the author at least understood how to write.  Unfortunately there was no original concepts involved.If you like "light and fluffy", original plot not necessary with descriptive sex scenes - you may like this book.  I'm just glad that I only spent 99 cents on it.