Review: A Soap Opera or Lifetime Channel Movie
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2013
****SPOILERS****First let me say that I like the author's Rylee Adamson series. I like her writing. So, I figured this would be a quick, enjoyable read. It was quick..because I skimmed through to finish. It was not enjoyable. For me, it was too much drama. It felt like a soap opera, especially when the heroine's 2nd love of her life actually was the recipient of her 1st love's heart.I never got a real grasp on this value system that Brielle, the heroine, had on rating her men. We were given these percentage numbers and it really was odd. I guess this was something else that Brielle's dear ole nana had taught her. Brielle repeatedly shares with us about how her Nana was the one who really raised her and taught her what her outlook on life and romance should be. (Frankly...I thought it was horrible advice. Just accept what you can get....that's all you can hope for. whaaatttt????) So at the beginning we have Brielle in this relationship with a complete jack-hole, Victor. They live together, become engaged because he's a 'good guy'. NO...NO NO NO. He's not a good guy. He makes more money and even though they live together makes her pay for her own meals. She is involved in an accident where a horse kicks her in the head and jack-hole doesn't leave work immediately. Since she's 'ok'...he'll come later. Enters the paramedic and 1st love of her life...Darwin. Immediate love at first sight. I will now move this review along a little more quickly. Just setting up the fact that Brielle is a doormat. Oh yeah, she also has a mother who married a jerk of a step-father and her mother is a complete biatch as well. Anyways...Darwin and Brielle strike up a 'friendship' because Darwin is married to a twit. The twit who owns the horse that kicked Brielle in the head. They have a full out emotional affair...never a full blown physical one. But I guess that it's ok to hold hands and share intense gazes and such. But we're supposed to be 'ok' with this because the twit, Fiona, trapped Darwin into this marriage. Darwin doesn't really love the twit.(see what I mean? soap opera)ok....fast forward. Let's up the drama that the night before Brielle's wedding to jack-hole, Victor, Darwin and Brielle declare their intense love for each other. They separate though...because that's the right thing to do. Marry someone you don't love and stay married to someone you don't love. Lo and behold...Darwin ends up getting killed in a car accident as he was doing a u-turn on a road, heading to pick up Brielle. Brielle is devastated. Leaves for a couple of years, backpacking across Europe with her token scrappy, best friend, Penny. Brielle comes back to attend the twit's 2nd wedding.(guess what...he's a jack-hole too.) (yeah...Brielle and the twit, Fiona strike up some strange friendship. That was weird.) THE DAY that Brielle is back in town, she catches a ride with a gorgeous hunk of a man, Micah. Almost the same exact love at first sight thing happens. More drama. Surprise.....Micah was really sick and when Darwin is killed, Micah needed a heart and they were an exact match!!!! SOAP OPERA. Fiona had been pregnant when Darwin was killed. Of course he looks exactly like Darwin. Darwin shows up in Brielle's dreams with this 'Fight for Me' message. Brielle sacrifices her love for Micah so that Micah can marry Fiona and be a father to little Darwin. Blah blah blah. I'm so over it by now. More drama....Fiona calls Brielle a hussy, Brielle's parents agree...yada yada yada. Don't fret...Brielle gets her happy ending. She gets Micah and her 100%.I have no problem if others like this book. Just wasn't for me. And I'm still excited for the next book in Mayer's Rylee series. This story did not work for me. (did I already say that? sorry.)I have given you the highlights...major spoiling the mess out of this review...but I'm thinking you would do better to read something else. Check out this author's other books.