Review: Cute, but not quite there.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
Writer is actually literate-- can spell and conjugate verbs and even writes some fairly tight prose. In fact one reason I went with three stars instead of 4 is because I wanted to say, "You're better than this." Despite the fact that the author seems competent, the whole story is a brief excuse to write a detailed "intimacy" scene. The barely there plot was far too contrived (Who goes off into the woods for a week and "forgets" to bring any food at all??). The main character is adorable, and impossible not to like, but fairly one-dimensional, and the rescuer is a very pretty cardboard cutout. I didn't really mind the 99 cents it cost to pass the half hour it took to read it, though I confess to being sold by the photo, not the plot summary.  Definitely hire that model again. But the writer could have done so much more with it if she'd been willing to make it about more than just that one scene. Nothing wrong with the scene. It's pretty typical of anything in the genre. But one insert tab A into slot B doesn't really make a story. I'd like to see this author continue to write, but expand her focus a little.