Review: A bit disappointing...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2013
I'm a huge Cameron Dane fan. She's one of the authors who got me interested in the m/m genre to begin with, and I count several of her books in my top ten list of favorites. However, I was a bit disappointed in this one. So much so, in fact, that there were times I wondered if it was really the same author!The concept of the story is interesting and the characters are well-rounded and beautifully flawed, which I think is one of Cameron Dane's strengths as a writer, but I felt like I was reading a first draft! (One particular paragraph even sounded like notes an author would make and not actual story!)It was SO LONG!I can usually read a Cameron Dane story in one sitting but this book took me three whole days to get through. I started skimming at one point because I felt like I'd heard it all before. It was slow and dragged horribly in several places, even during the sex scenes! The epilogue was way too long as well.There are some major problems with over-description and repetitive words/phrases. One particular word has shown up in other stories, but I've always been able to overlook that as a quirk. In this one though, it appears SO many times, and sometimes twice in the same paragraph. It drove me nuts.I have to wonder if this book was edited at all. I mean a serious, professional edit - not just letting friends read it and give feedback. I've done some editing for authors before, and the urge to get out my red pen and start marking this book up was almost overwhelming at times.I'm disappointed in this story and it's not one I will be reading again. A good edit and a little bit of tweaking would do wonders here. I hope that happens.If you've not read Cameron Dane before, please don't start with this one. She has so many fantastic books out there (Grey's Awakening, The Quinn Security Series), but this is just not one of them.