Review: 3.5
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2013
This book is terrifying, unexpected, and yet in parts tender and romantic. Please don't mistake the three star review as being outright dislike of this book. There were many things to love about it. The characters are really detailed and the events, particularly in the beginning of the book are interesting. This book has a good plot and isn't the simple read you often find when there is a romantic element involved. For the most part, I thought this was really well done.What got me, and lowered my love of this book slightly, was the explicitness of the sex scenes. I didn't feel that these scenes matched the rest of the story. The element of tenderness between the two main characters was what made me like this book in the first place, so the explicit scenes just took me out of that tenderness zone and made me shake my head. It just didn't fit in my opinion.I also found that in the beginning of the book when the main female character is told by her husband not to speak, that it made me not care all that much when something happened to him.Otherwise, this book is at times raw, will make you pay attention and root for the characters by the end. It was not a bad read and I would still recommend it.