Review: This was not the story for me.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
Ok, shocker I know, but I did not like our heroine, Nora. At all. So many of my notes are dedicated to complaining about how dumb she was. Her conversations are so bland (actually this was a whole book problem). Nora was just weird, dumb, blind, and a push over. She was so moody I was actually starting to get worried about her. Her mood flipped so fast and she seemed to get angry over the most random things. Nora could not have been more all over the place. She needs therapy or a sympathy kidnapping. Anything to put us out of our Nora misery. Plus she was so weak when it came to her boyfriend in the beginning. Nora never gets the balls to dump him, he technically dumps her. If it was up to her she'd still be dating him.Our hero, Ryan wasn't too bad. I found it interesting that his eye color seemed to change on the spot while Nora was looking into his eyes, is he a vampire? Demon maybe? Either way, if the dude I'm talking to starts flashing eye colors I'd probably throw the red flag and get out of there. He does try though so I'll give him some points for that. And really when you put him up next to Nora he seems so normal and calm.The sex didn't do it for me either. There are way too many references to her honey... yes, you read that right...honey. And they talk during the sex scenes continuously and I don't mean dirty talk talking. Both Nora and Ryan seem to share an affinity towards discussing their orgasms as they happen. The covos kind of went like this - (my interpretation)Nora: "I'm coming right now"Ryan: "I know, I'm watching you come"And this happens pretty much every. single. time in some form or another.I think the biggest problem I found while reading Awakening was the writing did not flow for me. I found a few editing issues in the book as well. Tense changes, random editing mistakes, and continuity errors. I think a few good beta readers could have done the story a lot of good and made a more polished finished product.Awakening wasn't the story for me, but it has 3.8 stars on Goodreads so obviously there is a fan base out there.