Review: A Good Read - Hot and Steamy but Too Fast - 3.5 Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2012
Love Left Behind is the story of Emma Mills, who decides to change her life and reinvent herself.  She breaks off her engagement with the guy she was with for 10 years because she knows the relationship is not fulfilling.  She then quits her job and leaves her hometown and ex behind to start over in the Big Apple.  Emma is excited about this new opportunity and vows to just have fun.  Okay, I was going with the flow on this story line and excited to see where it was going to go.Enter Jackson Reynard, the smoking hot actor friend she meets on her first day in New York.  Jackson pursues her and although she can't deny her attraction and wants to not get involved she tells herself just to have fun.  Interesting and I liked it!SH Kolee's writing was good and it kept my interest throughout the book.  But, I felt the story of Jackson and Emma getting together was a bit too rushed.  They barely knew each other a week and they were practically living together.  I mean, although he was swoon worthy this was too fast for me.  I need the anticipation to build, the chase, the angst, maybe some tension.  The change of Emma's feelings from wanting to have fun to realizing she can't live without this guy need to take some time to build up.  However, this all happened in the blink of an eye.  I would have liked more story and character development at this point.  I needed to understand why the attraction existed and I needed Jackson to work for it a little more.  Nonetheless, the smoking hot scenes were yummy!!There is drama and angst in this story, which I liked.  I always like a story that pulls me in emotionally and gives me a bit of fluttering in my heart.  This story had that, but again it felt rushed.Emma has to deal with losing Jackson, and him becoming a huge star and eventually reentering her life.  Although her heart had been broken, she finds herself starting fresh again and then there he was, almost instantly!  Again, I like a bit more build up in the story before the happily ever after.  I would have liked to see Emma struggle a bit more with her decisions and maybe have Drew give Jackson a bit more competition and cause Emma to struggle more with the love she lost and her new life.  Of course, it's easy to be the arm-chair author, so I would say in general I liked the story, the writing was good and the book was worth the read.I have a little bit of a book crush, but I believe that SH Kolee has great potential in her stories and writing and I look forward to her next endeavor!  At this rate I'm sure her writing will have me in a full on crush before long.  Give it a read, it was worth it and keep your eye out for more from this new author!