Review: Hard to finish...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2012
What I liked about this book:The plot, it was really good.  A heroine who bends over backwards to make sure injured children not only get the care they need but to bring the smile and hope back into their lives.  Heroine is also fighting a charge of murdering her husband filed by her in-laws who have a vengeance to see she pays for his death, no matter what.  Throw in a sick kid who has a rich and handsome daddy that needs her to bring them the healing that they all need to live happily ever after and sounds like a perfect recipe for a story.  And it almost worked.Unfortunately, this brings me to what I didn't like about this book:I absolutely hated the two main characters.  I liked all of the background characters, but couldn't stand Roxanne or Barry...Barry more than Roxanne, but not by much.  Neither one are endearing, leaving me feeling apathetic to the plight of their HEA.  For example, why should I feel sympathetic to Roxy's money trouble when the narration constantly name drops the brand name EVERYTHING on her body, has her at an event casually dragging a fur coat in her hand on the ground behind her like no big deal, or riding around in a car that needs premium grade fuel and only gets about 13 MPG?  Why should I feel more sympathetic to the biological father, who goes on TV and tells the entire world that a sport is more important to him than his only child (and shows it in his actions), vice the step father who raised her and shows every indication of being a real father to her time and again throughout the book?  But, this is one of the important plot points we are given here, so why is it dropped in the dust with no explanation as to why.  The count of men who were sick in love with Roxanne was too high for my taste.So all in all, I had to seriously fight my way through this book to finish it.  I didn't start enjoying the plot until way over halfway through reading it and every time I would start to enjoy it either Roxy or Barry would say or do something to distract me.