Review: Very disappointing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2014
I never thought I'd ever give this author such a low rating. I love this author's books and have read nearly all of her books and I've read this series and enjoyed it. This book was a complete miss for me. The love story just wasn't realistic and I don't believe that mature adults, particularly the H, would behave like this. The H is a high school principal and we know him from the other books as he is a close friend of the family of all the other main characters. The h was an art teacher before a horrific car accident injured her badly. Now she works on websites. The H is set up with the h by Maggie, another character we know from the previous books, who finds the h on an online dating website. Maggie starts writing to the h and then connects the H and h with each other. The problem is that the photo the H has of the h was taken before the accident and she had long blonde hair, blue eyes and was much thinner. After the accident she is badly scarred on her face and leg, she has brown contacts and has died her hair black and cut it. They begin corresponding and the H falls for the h. He decides to push her into meeting him by arranging to visit her much sooner than she planned. She wanted to have one more op on her face, change her contacts, dye her hair and lose weight. She concocts a scheme to go and meet him before he comes to see her. Sounds good? I thought so.+++Spoilers+++The H was so superficial and fell in love with the h's picture. The h hadn't used her real name on the website and so when he met her as her true self, he had no idea who she was. The h was too scared to tell him the truth and his interaction with her as her other persona just complicated an already messy story. The fact that the h never tells the H the truth during her week long stay had me wanting to throw my Kindle several times. The rehashing of everything in the main characters minds the whole time wore on my nerves. I wished I found the plot credible but I didn't buy it for one second and sadly the execution of this book didn't live up to the author's usually good standards.