Review: On the fence with this one
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2013
This is a book that I had a hard time rating. There were several things that I liked and several things that I didn't. For instance, I liked the writing, in that the author wove a good story. She fleshed out the characters well, even some of the secondary characters. Unfortunately, the author is also a cr*p editor. The book is absolutely riddled with errors: missing and misplaced words, incorrect words, random names, etc. For the love of good writing, PROOF READ!I liked Michael's character. A little too-good-to-be-true, but then this is a romance. I alternately liked and was exasperated with Karis's character. I thought that their main conflict was mostly her fault. There was no time that he could have told her his secret without her using it to end their relationship. The story was redeemed for me, by the fact that she realized her own problems and worked to correct them. I really liked the friend, Eve. She was a lovely snarky counterpoint.There were facets to Karis's character that were well drawn and very sympathetic. Then there were facets that jarred, they were so far from what I expected. She came across as a bit childish, quite a few times, and it didn't fit for me. My final complaint would be the overuse of the F-word. I don't mind a well placed F-bomb, especially where its use helps define a character. But this story had over 200 instances and I thought it was overused, particularly by school-teacher Karis.