Review: great story / plot ... it just didn't click for me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
I very much like the storyline for A Fighting Chance. Plenty of twists, action, drama, and new characters being introduced. That said, it never clicked for me. Although it had all the ingredients usually I love (grit, suspense, tension, and action), it just didn't pull me in completely. Part of the reason it didn't is because reading from Jesse's point of view was not always believable as a male p.o.v. for me. Some of the adjectives he would use were too feminine or fussy at times, and he was notably wordy for a guy. Parts of the story also had simply dragged out. I found myself speed reading on occasion.Finally, I don't have issues with cheating in books...but Jesse felt too much like an a$$ in this one for how he treats Lydia. If Lydia was so clueless (from drooling over his being a fighter to vilifying him), I am not sure why he was with her for so long. If she was actually was a good partner as she appears to be in the opening chapters and he loved her (they were going to EU together, moving in together, she threw him the party, and her family treated him well ... this all tells me she was a good girlfriend), then she so got the shaft in this relationship. He was a king a$$ for bailing on her and for his deception about going to Mexico with Drew. The break in the Jesse and Lydia relationship needed better time and attention paid to it. For how Jesse handled Lydia, that made me lose my ability to cheer for him or feel overly invested in his destiny.