Review: Expected more
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
I really enjoyed Love Show and I was excited to read this book. Overall I thought it was a good read I would give it 3.5 stars if I could. I thought that the banter and arguing between January and Christian was just enough to be defined as a relationship where they challenge one another without getting tiresome. Their relationship overall worked well and developed nicely. The things that did bother me though were the fact that January comes off as a high strung, air head snob and I feel like she never completely shakes that. Her background seems so underdeveloped we don't know what she's studying at Harvard, what she wants to do/dreams if doing, or is she a good student (unlike Love Show which had a very realistic college feel (I am in college so I can vouch)). We get briefly that she rides horses but she never seems passionate about it and it's a brief blimp. I think January does change for the better by the end of the novel but the way that she's presented in the beginning really never leaves her character and maybe it's the lack of background that does it.I also had to get over what I sort of saw as a plot flaw with Christian (hockey playing boyfriend some I'm up to speed on this information). When you're drafted into the NHL, unless you're one of the top three players (even these aren't guarantees) picked you don't go straight into the NHL (of course exceptions are made made on the basis of what the teams need(looking at you Sidney Crosby)). But lots of teams want the players they draft to stay in college or with their junior teams and continue to develop for at least another year otherwise they would probably be playing with their minor league team. I just felt it was a flaw in the opening with Christian and Sam. The rest of the things pertaining to hockey were great though because lots of other novels I've read get them wrong.I was also disappointed by the way it ended. There seemed to be no true climax and the Epilogue really didn't offer much. I would have liked to see it be a few years later as opposed to a few months. Overall I still liked it but I would definitely recommend Love Show first