Review: keeps getting better and better
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2014
This series shows the progress this writer has made in her craft. Every book just keeps getting better and better! Of course, even with all of its rough edges, I enjoyed the first book in this series, Shane and Trey and was hooked enough to continue with the series. However, The F Word is a lot more polished. Once Ms. Sunday brought her book settings to her native land, New Zealand and switched to the third person (Shane and Trey was in first person) this writer hit her stride. The first two books were ostensibly set in the States, but the colloquialisms and dialect were jarringly NOT American and were therefore kind of off putting to me as I wondered where in the heck in the States people talked like that. I am an American, and you do not need to set your book in America to appeal to an American audience. I enjoy reading books set in other milieus, and once this author moved the series into New Zealand in the third book, everything made a lot more sense in terms of the language used. Also, the sense of place was much more developed, giving the story even greater impact. Plus It is interesting learning a bit about New Zealand culture, eh? : ) I hope Ms. Sunday continues to write what she knows (i.e. New Zealand).Anyway, in terms of The F Words specifically, it is my favorite book in the series so far. The writing is just so much more elevated than her earlier books -- not that I didn't like them well enough, but seriously, there is a marked evolution in the writer's craft going on from book to book! The story was great as well. It was extremely emotional. I wondered how the author was going to redeem Rory in the reader's eye after making him such a horrible bigot in William. It didn't take me long to fall in love with him hard, however. I am a sucker for poor tortured heroes. His story is heartbreaking, and I have to admit I teared up a time or two during this book. Eric was also a great character. I was rooting for both of these lonely souls to find their way to each other.One thing that really bothered me was the way the email conversations throughout the book were formatted. The blue text was very off putting, and in some parts, the email conversations had no formatting at all. I think the author needs to go back and figure out a way to make the formatting on those email conversations less confusing and off-putting. I kept getting thrown out of the story. But this is just a quibble of mine. Overall, this was a lot better edited than the other books in the series, and there were some truly lyrical moments in the writing that got me breaking out in goose pimples ... In a good way.Beautiful love story! Can't wait for more.