Review: umm come again???
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
ok so I'm about 25% of the way through this book and had to comment. Story premisis is good, as is the flow, but  OMG has this author even been to Jersey???Last time I was there there where no TP signs in the parking lot of NWK. and I certainly wouldn't take the TP to get to Wanye from there(GSP). Not to mention the job problems she's having? WTH most school districts would hire her, but then since people were translating for her is she really that good? And why isnt she trying to get hired by the UN, embassies, or cosulates in NY? and Paterson or Passic really? More likely Elizabeth or Perth Amboy---not to mention a whole lot of "subarban" towns. makes no sense and pulls me out of story. And within less than a chapter I HATE Grace! If it was clear how old they were when parents died I might give her a pass, and since she went off on the sister anyway why wasn't a "then why didn't you marry him" thrown in? This has classic romance vibe, but stupidity in continuality makes it hard to rate as high as it should be. Hopefully it will get better before review at end ends up lower.and I was unfor. right. By the end this was down to a 2 then realized that it was written, as I was starting to believe at about the 30% mark over 20 years ago (was dead on about the 'classic' feel; final got a comment at end about Koch) but OMG what a mess (and a 2.5). If you're going to reissue something with so many comments about the locale at least get it the freak right! Again more Jersey mistakes that had my jaw on edge. The sister was someone I just wanted to throttle. I don't care if she was older, if she was my sister I would've been BEGGING Linda to let me stay with her. (Hell, maybe Grace and Linda's mother could team up and leave Linda and Karen the alone!)The fact that it was older, but still rang true as a good romance should have made it at least a 4 star, but with such glaring mistakes (Cobh is a harbor/harbor town in Ireland it is NOT Cork, which is the county it lies in! Also, of all the places, she had to pick a famous harbor/tourist attraction for a setting and then make a mistake? Half of the Jersey stuff, distance between places--- it takes way longer than 30 minutes to get from Wayne to NYC; even a city block isn't as long as she claims; roads used) and continued problems with continuality. Then there's that so called "politically incorrect" remark--- HELLO you had to have realized by the fact that there was so much trouble in Ireland (which hasn't seen the type of problems in this book in over 20 years) to realize that the politically correct of that day doesn't apply to today. It was also said by a character in a high stress situation trying to make things lite. Really get a grip! It was clearly not meant to be offensive and is the type of 'joke' shared by close friends. Furthermore, considering they were in Ireland, it might be pointed out to the reviewer that the "slave" would've been treated better than indentured servants! Overall cute, but needed to be reedited to make it better. The one liners where great and there were great quotes in the story, but the glaring inconsistencies and the fact that we were told but not shown and that Karen went from having such a good understanding of Steve to having next to no insight as she "grew up in a short time" was too much to not have rating dropped