Review: Overall Rating: 2.75 stars- Worth a few minutes before bedtime.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
So Right for You is the debut novel for Maggie Kaye. There are a lot of good things going on in this book. Very likeable characters, decent smut, an adorable cover, and a plot that doesn't suffer from the "miscommunication complication. For me, that added up to a likeable book, but some clunky dialogue and stiff writing left it short of "love."I struggled with this rating a lot. Maggie Kaye is a sweet author who not only gave me an ARC of the book for review, and gave away a free copy of her book this week to one of our readers, but also was great fun to get to know and has a great first effort. I really liked both Chloe and Garrett but just had trouble feeling very emotionally involved in the story."Jesus," she screeched."Honey, I'm not God, but thanks for the compliment."Some of the writing just felt stilted to me and some of the dialogue just didn't flow in a way that made it feel natural. It's not bad writing by any means. Just didn't flow in a way that felt like I could be part of the story.As any of our regular readers know, one of the hardest feats an author can attain for us is to make a truly likeable heroine. Chloe is one. She's nice without being weak. She's beautiful without being obnoxious. She falls in love without being clingy or needy. It's a delicate balance that she pulls off nicely."Darlin', don't worry your pretty little head. It's no big deal.""Garrett, cut the bull."We're told that Garrett has a bit of a past of going through women a bit. But we don't see much of that. All we really get is "sweet Garrett" as he cares for Chloe through a crisis. This is great for a nice, likeable hero, but as I prefer my book boyfriends to be barely-reformed-bad-boys, he didn't leave me panting like I'd hoped.All in all, I think it's a book worth reading. It wasn't my cup of tea, but it might well appeal to someone with less dark, sadistic requirements from their reading material.Smut Factor: 3 stars- Not BadCharacter likability: 4 stars- I wish we were friends.Storytelling: 3 stars- It could happenWriting and editing quality: 3 stars- A few errors, but nothing that took away from the story.