Review: 2.5 to 3 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2013
This book had good potential, that's why I have it teetering on 3 stars.  The main characters were really likeable.  The chemistry was there, but there was still something missing.  At times this book was good and then it would go boring.  It was almost too long.  There was too much going on and it overshadowed the main story.  There was too much emphasis on Ella.  I really didn't like Ella and I didn't really want to read that much about her.  I understood her place in the story, but it was too much.  I didn't quite understand bringing in the exes either.  The exes were a little pointless, it was almost as if there needed to be a conflict to solve and that's what the author picked.  I was a little baffled by the fact that Ella and Everett were given the hot sex scene.  Why?  They weren't the main characters and I really didn't care about them.  They had a hotter scene than Brody and Melissa.  Then there was the child abuse case.  If that part of the story was so important, there should have been closure for it.  We were never really given the outcome of that story.  I know the kids were placed elsewhere, the foster parent charged, but there was still no story.  Melissa was able to use it as a negotiation, but that was it.  I liked the Nelly story and the estranged father story, but I wish there would have been a little more background on those.  Those two characters had some kind of involvement in the relationship of Brody and Melissa, but there wasn't enough elaboration on them.  I think the problem was too many storylines and there wasn't enough focus on the H and h.