Review: Got better as I read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2012
At first I thought I was going to be disappointed in this book, but, as I read, it got better and better. What I imagined would be one or two stars turned out to be a four.I found the first part of the book to be rather ho-hum. There were some all-knowing comments among the third person point-of-view. For example: "For Ellie knew that she was attractive. Knew it and dismissed it as an irrelevance in a way that only the truly stunning can." There were too many "thats" used, especially at first. I didn't notice them after the story drew me in. "God" was never capitalized either. Some of the idioms, terms, and sentence construction are a bit different, also, but I think this is more the difference between British and American English than anything else.Athough Ellie and Andy have strong physical attractions, they don't go to bed together until near the end of the book, and nothing is described. I would have preferred they waited, but it was more tastefully done than most secular, romance books.Even though the plot here is rather predictable, it was still very interesting. The characters became real, and I liked them both. In the end, the novel was a quick, entertaining read. If you like a good romance, you'll probably enjoy it too,