Review: Good for the price
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
I thought of rating this three stars due to gaps, but for the price of $3.99 and almost 300 pages, which is far more than you get with many $10 books, I'll give it the fourth. The reason for the three stars is there just seemed to be too many missing scenes or ones lacking detail in the story. Some things can be skipped over in any story, just say they did it and maybe mention it later, but important facets need to be included.(A few minor spoilers follow): Considering this was a very straight woman interacting with a comfortable-in-her-skin lesbian and the straight woman freaked the first time they kissed, the first time they made love needed better explanation. It was more of a wham bam...then the next morning the aforementioned "straight" woman is making comments like "breakfast"? as she heads under the sheets. There wasn't enough intimacy in their first encounter (at least on page) to constitute this level of comfortableness that quickly. I felt their desire when they made out/kissed, but not in the bedroom.At one point, one character deeply hurt the other due to a misunderstanding caused by a third party. When the one that hurt the other figured out what happened, she begged for another chance and eventually got it (obviously). However, the reasoning behind her actions was never really explained to the other woman, making you wonder why she would give in and trust her again other than she loved her, but considering how hurt she was, that wasn't enough in my opinion. I guess the author was trying not to make the one character a full on tattle-tale, but the other one did need to understand her actions so she could trust her again.The story follows the standard formula, love at first sight, have issues, get together, have issues, get back together, have issues, get back together, get married. And that's ok as many of these stories are sweet and comforting to the average reader, but the proposal was basically skipped, then one says something indicating "yes" and they are engaged just like that. The intimacy of the moment when she round-about-way said yes, was nice, but the actual proposal was completely skipped.I'm not a big fan of stories with children unless they are witty, intelligent, quirky and wise beyond their years and this was the case in this story. The child played a sweet role and helped the story. The only issue I had was I don't think her age was ever mentioned until about 60% of the way through the book. It was indicated she was much younger during the first encounters of the book then older later.Other than the gaps, the story is good, the characters make you feel for them and there's a happy ending. If not for the important gaps, it could have been five stars.