Review: Great Potential
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
I had high hopes for this book based on the ratings, however it fell short.  There was so much potential for a really good story.  I didn't like the h or her friend at all.  SPOILER:  When the H decided he had had enough after waiting 7 years for her to regain her memories, I just found that insensitive.  The h's sense of pride was annoying.  Less than 24 hours after finding out the man she loves died, the h's friend decides that he wasn't really the love of her life and she leaves her friend to be happy because she has found her love.  Hello???  How can you come to this conclusion when you are still in shock.  Then the h deciding that the H is at fault for the death of her friends.  Again I say, "Hello???".  I love the idea of this story and the general outline, but it just fell short in the character development.  Right now I am forcing my way through the last 20% of the book.  It could possibly be because the last book I read was worthy of 6 stars and the characters were phenomenal.  This book might have had big shoes to fill and I just couldn't feel it.Another reviewer mentioned the strange language and that the author made too much use of her thesaurus.  I agree.  The language used as well as the inner and outer dialogues of the characters did not match who they were.  The result is that they didn't feel genuine or realistic.I don't write reviews often enough, but given high volume of 5 stars this book has received I felt the need to do so this time round.  So much potential, but not quite there.  I will not be investing the money to read other books written by this author.