Review: Almost But Not Quite
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2012
This book started off good to me with Nylah reading a positive pregnancy test that she too and is in disbelief because she has been taking her birth control pills. She also knows that her finace' Drew doesn't want any kids right now heck he almost hit her the last time she told him she was pregnant. So after telling her best friend Jamie that she's pregnant again Drew walks in and catches the tail end of the conversation. After the pregnancy situation Drew plans a night out for he and Nylah filled with dinner and a night at the hotel. But, Nylah gets a surprise visitor that changes everything in her life and everything she thought she knew about the people she loved.Ok I'm rating this book 3.0 because for one Nylah mother has cancer and hasn't been doing to good and Nylah hasn't even been to see her mother for two years after leaving town due to what happen with her 1st love Terrell. I just can't see how you can love your mother as much as Nylah says but doesn't come to visit until 2 years later. Also after finding out what happen between her and Terrell and the reason she left just wasn't a good enough reason for THAT to be why she left home and never came back not even for her sick mother. Now I love the whole interaction with Nylah and Victor which regained my interest in the book it. Now the thing that happen when Nylah finally came back to Chicago was just a bit much for me. I mean she spends one night and then all hell breaks loose the following morning. The whole thing with Jamie came totally out of left field there was not enough background information to explain why Jamie did what she did.By the time the situation made it to the two month mark I was like ok now that is just TOO fiction for fiction. The ending was ok I did like the whole situation with Julio, Greg, Frank, Nylah, & Vic. Until this part happen at the end of the book I was rating it 2.5 but that part made it an even 3 star rating. I will admit that I knew who Greg had dealings with the moment he told Nylah he was from Miami. There we also a few typos but nothing major to take away from the book though. This book really could've been a five star rating book. The stroyline was a good one but the execution wasnt there all the way the lack of history on Nylah's and Jamie friendship, the relationship between Selena and her twin Julio and their father Santiago, and even Drew and Selena's relationship. So my overall opinion of the book is this was an ok read to me it was worth the time spent reading the book so I say buy the book.