Review: Lovely and real.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
There was a moment in this excellent debut story that I felt a bit thunderstruck because it came to me what I liked so much about it wasn't what I usually gravitate to in a romantic story. It was the moment that I got really, really pissed off at our hero Roman Newsome.He'd done something to the heroine, Maya Taylor that in my mind was unacceptable in a relationship. A major dis if you will and to make matters worse he never fully explains himself or apologizes (at least not to my satisfaction). In fact afterwards Maya even gets put on the defensive and his meager reasoning for his actions are his past experiences in a relationship and that's when it hit me. There was a sense of realism in this story that you don't often see in a romance. From the kinds of music they prefer to how they meet cute; from the way they cook and eat meals, to what and how they talk or fight with each other Roman and Maya seemed like people not characters at all. Granted that can go two ways in a romance but here in Unexpected it works and works well.Sometimes the pacing of this story threw me. The jumps the story or a character would make from one transition to another were sometimes hard to follow and could have used more clarity or more exposition. However that was a minor challenge and one that didn't keep this story from being entertaining and making me very interested in seeing a whole lot more from this author.