Review: No thanks...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2013
Choppy, disjointed story about TV/movie star Ty Hollister and his former co-star Carrie's secret love affair/drama and all the hype that brings up again when the former secret lovers are reunited when their show Undercover Heat is about to be released on DVD 5 years after the show/couple viewers loved has ended. This is drama with a capital D. The story jumps starts more or less right before the DVD release and the tale goes back and forth over current and past details. At times hard to follow and never enough detail or depth to make the story deep enough or believable. On top of this there's a back story of manipulation and deceit by Ty's ex-spouse. Ty is either the most nave TV/movie star in Hollywood or incredibly dense to not get his ex-wife's number. Carrie has her own set of mental/emotional problems she's working through not helped any by her deacon father who's an overbearing nut job and hates Ty with a passion. Magically all is forgiven at the end and Carrie's family and Carrie/Ty all live happily ever after. Had me rolling my eyes.You might wanna skip this part of my review if you don't want to hear my rant. Still reading? Hear goes....my biggest complaint here was the authors lacks of spatial awareness at the 89% mark. This sorta thing always causes me to stumble in a story and REALLY annoys me. Not that the story over all didn't already annoy me. Get this....in a romantic scene Ty/Carrie are side by side on a piano bench while he's playing her a tune. At one point Ty scoops Carrie up and sets her on the keyboard (you can just imagine the butt tune that twinkles on the keys, right?). Then the line goes on to say Carrie puts her head in this lap. Logistically? Really?...Think about that. Ok, her ass is no doubt in the air due to the height difference between the keyboard and his lap. She then strokes her hand through his hair. Hmmm...sounds awkward to me given her angle with her head in his lap, but o-k-a-y. Then he reaches up and slips his hands through her hair. Now how is that possible? If her head is in his lap wouldn't Ty have to reach "down" to put his hands in Carrie's hair? See what I mean? Aren't we supposed to read with the mental picture the author gives us using our imagination as to what that looks like? Maybe this was all just one big typo that got over looked using the lap scene that should have been deleted rather than printed. Have to tell you I re-read that scene about 5 times thinking maybe I read it wrong, but nope. By this time I'm way too anal about it and the romantic scene playing out is lost on me because I've gotten too bogged down in the details. I trudge on to the end wishing this would have been a better story. Sigh...oh well, chalked this one up to been there done that and don't wanna go there again.