Review: Sweet Easy Read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2014
I started reading this book as a precursor to reading the second novel in this series, A Sweet Affair, which I signed onto read as a part of it's blog tour. This was a sweet, easy read for me. In total on my iPad it was 147 pages and took me about and hour and a half to read.This book centres around Victoria and Leland. The story starts off with some background on Victoria and her friendship with Sage and Nick, then dives into background on her job before introducing us to the CEO of her company, Leland, who is arriving into town for a few months. It basically jumps straight into their romance. This story is told from the dual points of view of Victoria and Leland.As I stated before, this was a sweet and easy read, and was a great effort on the authors part for a first novel. The writing was well done, but what was lacking for me was conflict within the storyline. The synopsis lead me to believe that there would be conflict because she is having an "affair" with her boss, but this was not much of a factor in the book. For the most part, it was an easy ride and any conflict that did arise was superfluous and unnecessary. I couldn't connect much with the characters because the drama (which was created by Victoria), could have been solved by rational thinking and a conversation. Everyone saw that she was being unreasonable and yet he jumped through hoops to make her happy and "fix" the issue.I will definitely be reading the next book in this series, and the third which will be coming out in March. With some adjustments this could have been a really great book and the author showed she had the writing chops to make that happen. Stay tuned for my review on the second book in this series A Sweet Affair which centres around Sage, Victoria's best friend and Connor, Lelands good friend, both who have been burned in previous relationships.