Review: southern love story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
This is a decent read. The stories and characters are well thought out and have a clear destination. There is nothing at all wrong with this writing, but I grew bored with these characters. Actually, Austin I loved, but Farrah started out as a strong, friendly, and intelligent woman. By the end I found her to be insecure and sappy. She constantly made statements and then went back on them. She says that she doesn't want to be in the public eye, he agrees. Then he asks her to do a magazine interview, she backs down and agrees. She just seemed washy washy.I also saw a few flaws as far as consistency; she was six weeks pregnant, spent two months away and when asked she was still two months pregnant. I've never been pregnant, but even I know that math is wrong somewhere. Also, a lot is made of Austin's accent; though, wouldn't it just be normal for a southern girl? This really irked me since I'm a northern city girl married to a country boy, his accent is cute, cause it's different than what I'm used to.My other complaint is the weird choices the characters made (strictly for the sake of drama), particularly the end scene, it felt too contrived.This book also felt as if an older person were writing it; many of the phrases used by this fairly young couple were so OLD and unused except for in books. Then towards the end of the book a bunch of urban slang was used, it just felt tired.