Review: Not very tempting at all. Quite confusing, actually!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2013
Shannon's question:  "Have you ever been in love before?"Rory's answer:  "No. Never, which is why I recognize it now."The logical leaps proposed like this one were found throughout the story, and that made it very hard to accept the pace and events that were happening. I use this as an example to show how confusing the reasoning of their romance is. How can one recognize anything if never experienced before?  First, one must be (even slightly) "familiar" with something before they can "recognize" it. This lack of literary reasoning happens many times throughout this story, and it made it very hard to connect with these characters on a deeper level because very little of it felt believable. If this was meant to be sold as "love at first sight" (in reference to the example I give above) then it failed miserably, because their bickering and doubts about motivations killed that idea at face value. Even the sex scene between them at the 49% mark was rushed and never buffered with the dialogue immediately following it, giving me no reason to want them to share in intimacy again. Their chemistry isn't there, and her doubt of his intentions is a turn-off.On nearly every page, I had to read some scenes twice just to confirm who was saying what, as the direction between speakers was never intimated to the reader. All in all, a very shallow love story with extremely confusing and often unbelievable mental jumps in terms of motivations or reactions. I give this story 2 stars because I didn't quite hate it.