Review: starts with a bang but ends in a dud
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
This book started off with a bang, an explosion of words, a literal smorgasbord! Calli & Travis meet online in an Scrabble chat room. The opening scene is amazing and will completely suck you in with its wit, heat and hilarity. You will stay engaged as Travis tries to find Calli in the real world and goofs it up with a case of mistaken identity. He quickly corrects his course and finds her, but that's when the book began to veer off for me.Calli is a recluse who has a very good reason to be afraid of the dark outside. Travis is a rock guitarist who's trying to reform his playboy ways. They seem like two pieces to complete a puzzle, but then Doyle adds layers that befuddled me. Calli is also a sex shop -excuse me- romance store owner. Travis also builds websites to pay bills. A reclusive sex kitten and a rocking information specialist? *Scratches head*But the word play was so good that I kept reading. And then the clothes started to come off. *Rubs hands together with a smile* But the love scenes were badly choreographed. A kiss would be planted on the neck and then barely a sentence later at her vajayjay and by the end of that sentence she had orgasmed. Huh?I got to 60% before the plot took a nose dive and TSTL moments took over. Travis & Calli had a fight because he tried to get her to face her fears. Then he kisses another girl, comes to his senses, but denounces himself as the scum of the earth and breaks it off with Calli even though she's like 'it was just a kiss, right? I'm cool.' Then Calli becomes self-loathing and think she doesn't deserve him. But they're still playing sexy scrabble? Enter a plot device that forces them both to face their issues that had me wrinkling my nose in obviousness. I had to hit the home button on the Kindle.