Review: Enjoyed this book very much
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2010
When I heard about Alex Beecroft publishing a contemporary romance I was, well not exactly worried, I trust in her writing talent and as of today will buy anything that she will write, I was I think a little bit surprised. I was wondering why she decided to abandon writing about guys at sea. Well, she did not abandon guys at sea. Sea is very present in this story.Both of our heroes escape to the sea to have one month out of their busy and stressful lives to be themselves. Millionaire Alex escapes from overnearing mother and fiance and stressful work to his yacht and to be free to look at the handsome guys. Alex knows that he would much rather be with a guy you see, but he had not actually been with the guy yet.And Darren escapes to surfing, he wants to escape from all the things his poverty makes him to do to take care of himself and members of his family and some of those members should we say not the most grateful people in the world. And this year Darren also runs from the very bad ending of his prior relationship.And they meet near the sea and here it all begins.I realize more and more that it is so much easier to explain the things that did not work for you in the book than to explain why SO MUCH did work.Where do I start? Probably with the fact that I more often than not cannot visualise what I am reading about right away, I need to stop and think about it before I get a visual so to speak. And the writer who makes me seeing their story in front of my eyes right away deserves the praize for this fact alone if for nothing else.When I was reading this book it was as if I was seeing a movie, Alex in the car, their first meeting, sea and surfers, they are on the yacht, everything right in front of me and it was so much fun.Visuals were amazing and all because this writer is so skillful.Or should I talk about how much I loved all the characters and how much I loved that while Alex and Darren were flawed people, their flaws were also very real world flaws? I mean I cannot really relate to one of the protagonists being a killer for example (it is a hypothetical example lol), but I certainly can understand trying to get a money by any means possible if you live in the conditions Darren did and I certainly can understand not being brave enough to tell your family or loved one what you really want and why they should move a bit and give you space to breath while you figure out what is it that you really want.And how much I love how the changes in the characters are shown and how simple it is why they really belong together - they make each other brave and they are "on the same page" as to what each other wants.Oh I loved this book so so much.