Review: Classic plot, mediocre writing with no depth to characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2013
I did want to love this book so much because it has the classic "friends to lovers" storyline. Me lasting 67% of the book is a testament to that (I checked the numbers on the bottom of the screen just to know how much longer I had to endure it). I finally lost the will to finish it around the time the generic villainess tries to pull one over the generic hero and his generic best friend, and generic hero storms out on generic heroine.I give it 2 stars only because in the beginning, the missing punctuation marks and wrong tenses were bearable. But as it went on, the poor quality of the writing began to grate on my nerves until it was unbearable. Some parts read like a badly edited story from Fictionpress.net. The best way I can put it is that instead of creating images in my head, I felt like I was reading a transcript where there are no layers in the writing to delve into.Everybody in the story is a bad caricature of the requisite characters in a romance: the spunky co-worker and the supportive sister. The guy-next-door hero. The self-conscious heroine. The vapid villainess. The ladykiller best friend. These things can be good in a romance, but the way they were handled in the story was awful in that they uttered the lines you expected, and did the expected, that you know what they'll do before you even read it. That made them generic and forgettable and completely uninteresting.NOT RECOMMENDED.