Review: Honestly.....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2013
I tried to like this book but there are too many.....this book was too fiction for fiction and I hate those kinds of books thus making me hate this book. The insta-love in weeks between Jesse and Layla AND Drake and Lana with no foundation just made me even less interested in this book. This book didn't suck to me but it was very close and this is my second book from this author and I'm starting to see that this author isn't for me. And its partly because I don't understand nor care for this author writing 30 plus year old men going after 17-18 year old girls?! Like wtf? For me personally that is disturbing first it happen with Emmie(17) and Nick(30ish) and now it's happening with Layla's VERY recently turned 17 yr old sister Lana(started at 16 then carried into 17) and Drake(VERY 30ish). Also the fact that Layla is more concerned about Drake being a rocker and NOT in his 30's as not being good for her 17 yr old sister Lana......*rolls eyes* see? Yeah just disturbing. Why can't the author write these GROWN ARSE men with GROWN ARSE women and not girl? I just can't or couldn't with this book it was just....too much wrong with this book. Like this book was suppose to be about Jesse and Layla's story but it seemed to me it was more about Emmie than anyone else. Like Emmie's had her story and to just write her in the book more than Layla was annoying to me.So like I stated earlier this is my second book from this author and in her first book I had issues with her inaccurate portrayal of Emmie's pregnancy. Stating she(Emmie) was far enough along in her pregnancy to know the sex of the baby but to be not be showing AT all. To now in this book that 5 or 6 year old Lucy(Layla's other little sister) is reading at a 5th grade level which is not likely. Now granted I know I there are some kids out there who CAN do this but if they talk like a 5-6 year old and have the comprehension level of a 5-6 yr old. Like Lucy was written in this book how are we the readers suppose to believe that she can read at 5th grade level? This book again just wasn't my cup of tea and I think if the book would of been focused more on Layla and developing her character than on Emmie and her pregnancy. Then maybe just maybe I would of liked the book more. There wasn't a connection from me the reader to the characters in the book. There wasn't enough character development for the characters for me to even become invested in them. I was more interested in Drake and his demons than who the book was suppose to be about (Jess and Layla). So in my opinion I say skip this book and go get Drake and Lana's book I mean I won't but I'm sure you will like their story better than this one.