Review: The Hick and The Hippie
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2012
PLOT: Lee and Xander meet when she's assigned to tutor him in math. When she returns to Chicago, they don't keep in touch. Years later, they bump into each other at the airport and Xander's not letting her go a second time.PROS: You get a good lengthy story for the price. The characters are well developed. It's a very erotic read. I loved Xander's dominant behavior.CONS: It needs editing. Some of the issues may have been caused by formatting. A few times when sentences were repeated.The story only allows the characters to flow from one sexual encounter to another with small breaks for minor conflicts. I would have preferred two or three well done love scenes to being constantly told that the two were making love. It made it seem as though they didn't have anything between them but sex.There's a lengthy flashback near the beginning that is ultimately pointless. If the goal was to explain how they met, that section still could have been half as long. I was beginning to think that was going to be the entire story. It goes on for so long that I was thinking that the author would chronicle all the time they spent together as teens and then the eventual break up. But no, the flashback ends abruptly.The point of view flows back and forth from Lee to Xander. This wouldn't bother me so much but it also seems to flow from one scene to another until it was impossible to keep track of the passage of time.Many of their conflicts seemed contrived. When they're teens, Lee becomes angry at Xander for asking too many questions. Really? It was irrational behavior like this that made me dislike her. Their largest conflict doesn't seem resolved. And there's the part about her being assaulted at a party that she never tells him about.To fix Xander's anger at Lee over their break up, he decides she should spank him. I'm still confused as to the logic behind that one. And personally, I don't like my alphas to take a spanking and cry about it like a girl. I don't object to BDSM, but I found this to be a turn off.The story seems to continue on for a while without a point. I was left wondering why it wasn't finished.2.5 STARS: The author has talent, but I'm glad that I only borrowed this.