Review: Just Didn't Hit the Mark
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
I was pretty disappointed with this book. I didn't outright hate it, but I didn't find much to like, either. I found it a bit cheesy and unrealistic, especially the first third or so of the book. My annoyance with both of those items faded the further I read, but definitely still lingered.I felt like the author wanted to have all these different quirky elements in the book, and so she added them, whether they actually fit or not. For example, the Dog thing. I've never read a book with the Dog's point of view. While I'm not opposed to this, I don't feel like it was well done. In fact, it seemed entirely pointless. The Dog wasn't even with the hero for 9/10ths of the book anyway. When it finally DID make it to the hero, it was a happy--and completely unexplained--homecoming. Why was the Dog magically able to know where his master was? Was was the Dog so tied to the hero? Why did the hero "need" the Dog, and vice versa? This was very disappointing; I at least expected there to be some sort of significance to this story line.Maddie is quite weak and that is something I detest in a heroine. She doesn't even really have this underlying strength that needs to be found. She's just a pushover who made a few really stupid decisions in her life and it happened to somewhat work out. The whole debacle with her job was entirely overdone and ridiculous. There wasn't really a resolution, either. Everyone tells her to do the cutthroat thing, but she refuses, and then it's over and she's supposedly won because someone else wants to hire her?Logan, as a hero, is all over the place. He has this gruff side, but he never really seems to soften, even for the hero. He's a fool and he claims he's in love with another woman for almost the entire book. I didn't find much about him to be redeemable. I don't think he had much character development throughout the book like he should have.I didn't see any chemistry between the hero and the heroine. The only thing I believed was that they were there due to convenience.Olivia is evil and all that, but I didn't understand her point. She didn't really DO anything in the story except put Logan in a situation where a mirror could break. This was the most convoluted scene I've ever read and I'm not even 100% sure I understood what was going on. I just kept trying to get through it.I don't think I'll be reading anything else by this author.