Review: Love it or hate it....It's real
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
I really loved this one. What appears to bug some readers is actually very attractive to me. I love drama and angst and a jerk ex-boyfriends and the whole dirtstorm they stir up…and Breckin caused a massive dirtstorm in Floodgates. What a grade A jerk…but one I felt a strange connection to. I think it was because we didn’t just get the gratuitous and ambiguous ex-boyfriend backdrop, no, we got to meet him and see why Tracy fell in love with him. So yeah, he was a jerk and I hated many of his actions, but I still liked the guy. Sue me!But the star of the show was Tracy. He and his best friend Matt were easily my two favorite characters. Their exchange during the car accident was brilliant. That was the scene that let me know that this was going to be a winner. Tracy was absolutely hilarious. He gave as good as he got and would flick you off just as soon as he was to give you a hug and a kiss. He was real and I loved him.Now Cord, he was confusing to me at first. I thought he was the bigger jerk between him and the cheating ex boyfriend. I even had to go back and reread the blurb to make sure I had my main characters straight. But, once you really get to know him, and get at the truth, you just fall head of heels for the big, romantic, pushy, and possessive lug. By the end I put him the “dreamy” category.So now we have my opinions on the main guys and a sidekick. But this story is also crammed full of awesome and amazing (and some not so amazing) secondary characters. The people were just so authentic to me, and that really draws me in. There is also a mystery and one that takes a couple twists and turns I didn’t expect. I was wrong with both of my choices as to who was the bad guy and that’s just awesome. Predictable I said, but nope, I was wrong, twice and I own it!I won’t be surprised to see reviews all over the place on this story. No doubt some will hate it and others, like me, will love it. I had two dislikes in the midst of all that love and one was Celia…hated her for a multitude of reasons (one being that she was a skanky home-wrecking "you no what" and still won…hated that) and two the ending felt a little rushed. That may have been because the story before that last chapter flowed at a nice steady pace but the ending just zoomed by with a lot of stuff happening. I would have liked a couple more chapters, but then again I am greedy that way.