Review: Could Barely Finish It
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2012
There are several ways to describe this book: contrived, melodramatic, too long, cheesy, inconsistent.  To be honest, I feel dumber for having read it.  The author apparently doesn't think her readers are very intelligent anyway.  Love Left Behind contains several themes I hate: insta-love, "big misunderstanding" keeping couple apart, unconvincing villain, characters who are TSTL, too much sex makes it repetitive and un-sexy, hero gets very creepy in the last quarter of the book.Here are some of the reasons I disliked the book...**Some Spoilers**- The H/h meet and there is no build up at all, they have sex on their first date and are a serious couple in less than a week.- Within 3 months they are pledging undying, permanent commitment and much of it is very cheesy i.e. "You're my life, I can't breathe without you" etc.- Jackson is a wannabe actor who gets a BIG break (starring in a major motion picture) and tries to quit after one week b/c he can't function without Emma by his side. Really??- The reasons for their separation could have been easily solved by a phone call or two.- When they run into eachother after FIVE years, the H is a psycho path. It's not sexy, he's restraining-order-bat-sh!t-crazy.- Even after reuniting, the h is so stupid she never even asks the H for the truth about what she believes happened to break them up.I love alpha males, and I love when Heroes are possessive of their women, but it has to be done correctly and this was not.  The hero seemed very "Fatal Attraction" the last quarter of the book particularly, and it didn't make him hot or tough, it made him seem desperate and weak.  And the writing wasn't great, so as readers we don't really see WHY Jackson falls so head over heels insane for Emma after one meeting.  She's nice, pretty, moderately funny, but so are a million other girls in NYC.  What is it about her that he just "can't live without" her?  It's never shown to us adequately.  More than anything, I am highly perturbed that I can never get back the several hours that it took me to read this ridiculous drivel.If you're looking for something along the vein of this book that's well done, try The Mighty Storm.