Review: --- Spoilers ---
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2011
Maybe I'm not as sophisticated as the other reviewers, but I really didn't dig this hero. Maybe I'm naive and too romantic, but I really wish I had known that not 6 hours after taking h's virginity, the hero would be bopping his ex (maybe not so ex) wife.When I first started the book, I was enjoying the Bridget Jones feel of the clumsy, awkward heroine, but the hero was no Mr. Darcy. When h first meets H, he's wearing a tee that says- Idaho  No Udaho. What guy wears that? I had to check to make sure this guy was really the H. He's cold and even mean to her in the beginning, so oblivious and egocentric, and Addie never once puts him in his place. I'm all for self-effacing but c'mon.Addie (the h) is beaten down by her ever-critical mother, her work colleagues, even by the H (Will). So when the psycho ex shows up unexpectedly, ruining Addie's post-coital glow, I wanted to scream. Just as Will rolls off her, his ex shows up, and Addie's made to hide out in the bathroom in confusion, only then to shimmy down a drainpipe, landing in the harsh reality of jerkdom.Addie slinks off home, and what does H do? He does his ex, as Addie is dealing with a nightmare of a morning-after. Ex asks him to make her feel better and he obliges. He blames it all on morning wood, sleep in his eyes and her hand down his pants. If only his backbone would stiffen up as quickly.He has yet to kick ex out, who has moved uninvited into his house. He just can't seem to tell her to get lost. He pretends to be drunk, passed out, asleep, all to avoid the ex. He even moves a dresser in front of his bedroom door in order to keep her out. Seriously.He decides he wants Addie, shows up at her house, sees her hugging some other guy (her brother), gets angry and flounces (yes, that's the word) off with his a** over his shoulder because she appears to be with someone else after having just been in his bed?! The injustice. The nerve.He does go to Addie to explain what happened, and she too quickly forgives him (he neglects to tell her he boinked the ex); I wanted her to make him grovel, to make him beg, to make him suffer. No such luck. She's too busy beating him back into the bed. Of course, it's a hotel bed, what with ex still entrenched in his house and all. Add to that ex's psuedo-suicide attempt and Will rushing to her rescue (the ex calls him while he's in bed with Addie, AGAIN), I just wanted to pull my hair out. This guy is unfreakingbelievable.I did not finish the book after that. So keep that in mind. Maybe you might like a lot of angst and what I'd call cheating. I know he and Addie weren't committed to each other, but I would really expect the hero? to wait at least a whole day before dipping his wick somewhere else and to know how to tell another chick to get lost. I personally just don't like that, and this is only my opinion. As I said, I couldn't finish the other half of the book. Does Addie stay with Will? Or does she fall for his brother Ed? Do they fight over her? What else does the evil ex come up with? I don't know and don't care. I just couldn't take anymore.ETAFinding the Right One, a follow-up featuring Will finding the right girl.