Review: Strong start, awful finish.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2013
I read the first 69% of this book with a little smile on my face. I really liked it. The heroine is a bit of a Negative Nelly, but hey, they cant all be about plucky go-getters can they?!The world building is great, I really got a feel for just how isolated and shut down she was, her boring job, her workmates; all of it. (However I would have liked a better physical description of the heroine, but it didn't really detract from the story).***minor spoilers ahead***The development of the love story is charming and entertaining, until the Big Reveal. Then it suddenly descends into awful fan fiction written by someone a good ten years younger than whoever wrote the first half of the book. The hero goes from likable to a jerk like that (snaps fingers), although of course, she still loves him. There's the obligatory sex with props (and no discernible romance, desire or feeling). Then there's the actual climax, which I swear is almost EXACTLY the same as a friend of mine wrote when we were in high school and she wrote fan fiction about the lead singer from AHA (except it was the Grammys).Its awful to putdown someone else's hard work, especially when the first half was SO enjoyable. I's love to reread it if the author went back and rewrote the last 30%. I hope she keeps writing because I would read her again.