Review: A Disappointing Read!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
I am puzzled over the 5 star reviews. Goodreads has this rated at 2.33 stars. That is quite a difference in the ratings on this site.Be warned that this book is nothing like Some Like It Charming, Some Like It Perfect, and Some Like It Ruthless. It isn't even close and I was so disappointed. For me this was a depressing book and I had trouble sleeping once I finished it.Cassandra was so very much in love with her gay best friend, Shane, and she wanted him to be her HEA regardless. She wanted him whatever way she could have him. Very sad reality is that it was evident he was not going to be her forever. He loves her as well, until he falls in love with Christian. He still loves her but as his best friend. I did not care for Cassandra's character and she was not all that likeable. Poor Cassandra could not catch a break. Every dream she had of her future would most likely never happen.Brady has had a severe tragedy that has changed his life forever. There will never be forgiveness and his world is destroyed. He just trudges through life a day at a time. He meets Cass and they have fling but he doesn't want anything more than that. They both realize that if they remain a couple they will be each others second best always because if they had a choice they would have chosen someone else. She is truly devastated with what Brady has to tell her and then he leaves her...Big problem with the gay couple. To me, their characters were portrayed as weak-bodied, weak-minded, somewhat effeminate, wimpy, and they actually reminded me of two girls. They had no cojones whatsoever. I did not find it a flattering characterization of these two men.It was like a weird foursome with Shane in love with Cass and Christian and Cass in love with Shane and Brady. I don't think, no matter the circumstances, that I could be someone's second choice, their consolation prize. It just isn't in me.Do I recommend this book. I am sorry to say that I cannot. But I need to also say that the situations and characterizations in this book may not trouble others as they did me so it may work for you.My desire is to get lost in a good book and once I have completed it I like to feel pleased, happy, even pumped up, with  satisfaction at the outcome. I did not feel those things with this book.