Review: I Kinda Hated This One
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2013
I can't believe I actually finished this, but I think I only kept going to see if it had anything redeeming it at all. Spoiler alert: it doesn't for me and I'm kinda mad that I wasted my Kindle borrow on this book.First, the book is chock full of lazy errors. Pretty much every single time it is supposed to say "were" it says "where" (just an example).  An editor would also have been useful in trimming this book down - it includes a lot of wasted pages. The author bio states that she is in real estate and apparently she finds it utterly fascinating based on the level of detail it gets in this book as the main character is also in real estate. The author is also, apparently, infatuated with the scenery in Colorado. I get it. I've been there. It is beautiful. But....it doesn't need to be repeated every few pages or in as much detail. These things - the real estate and scenery details - are basically irrelevant to the story and just waste space - and your time when reading it.Speaking of irrelevant - the author tells us the make and model of pretty much every single character's vehicle. The only time it seems to even be relevant is when it is mentioned how Jules is vegan and didn't get leather seats. That was really the only detail we needed about ANYONE's vehicle. So many car details....why????We have two women who are straight - one married and one engaged - who suddenly decide that they want to bang each other and it's like no BFD to them. Riiiiiight. Coming out lesfic is kinda lame unless you're a new gay, but there should've at least been some turmoil for them. Overall, characterization was just a big thumbs down.The author's view on cheating was also interesting. Apparently, if you're married then cheating is okay as long as you stop sleeping with your spouse as soon as you start sleeping with your new fling!The love scenes. Let me start by saying that you can usually tell by an author's love scenes if they've ever actually been in a passionate relationship. Those that have been seem to write better scenes while the rest of them, well - they write terrible love scenes. As far as relaying this type of passion, the author did manage to successfully accomplish that, but it was still kinda lackluster. And it seemed as if pretty much all the love scenes were just oral and then "she crawled up to lay beside her" or something equally lame like that. Basically - a good start and then a wrong turn into fizzled out nothingness. You can find better love scenes in Behind the Green Curtain by R. Lashea and Bella Key by S. Chastain (those are the best I've found recently).Storyline was pretty much predictable. And lots of the things she has the characters think/feel is not age appropriate - makes me wonder if this started out as some sort of fanfic with teen main characters or something as there are far to many thoughts of "feeling tingly inside" and utterly ridiculous teenage-love style dialogue.To sum up: Poor writing quality, full of typos/errors, loads of irrelevant details, predictable "plot", love scenes were "meh", probably would've been awesome if I was about 15 years old and really liked real estate, cars, and Colorado scenery, seemed to drag on and on and and on...This book made me want to cry....because I wasted all that time reading it :(