Review: Pretty Cutesy
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2013
I'm a sucker for romances where the hero and heroine are best friends, so I quickly snapped this one up. The premise is a little different, though. Holly and Luke were best friends back in elementary school, but haven't seen each other in a lot of years. When they run into each other before the wedding of their respective best friends, the attraction is instant.Here's the thing, though: the chemistry wasn't apparent to me, as the reader. Holly and Luke both professed that they were into each other and danced around it almost too much. I mostly found myself frustrated that they wouldn't just take their relationship to the next level, already. And I'm not just talking about sex. They even shied away from kissing and such. I just didn't have the patience for them, really.I didn't care for Holly or Luke, really. Neither of them had anything particularly special going for them. Holly is sweet and is trying to save her best friend from making a huge mistake before she runs back home. She keeps talking about the fact that she wants to get home and she can't stay in Stilton, but there's never really a reason why. It just is. Luke is the quintessential good guy in the town. Everyone loves him and everything is great and blah blah blah. He's actually so good that he's boring. His brother was actually more interesting than he was.I also had an issue with the entire plot of the book. Holly is returning home to Stilton early to tell her best friend, Bree, that her fiance, Alan, is cheating on her. Luke convinces Holly not to tell Bree immediately because it might be a mistake. He then confronts Alan himself, and finds out that it's true. He still doesn't want Holly to tell Bree. This plot was so ridiculous that it made me angry. Luke kept telling Holly over and over that it wasn't their responsibility to watch out for Bree and warn her that her fiance had sex with another woman only days prior. This, in and of itself, turned me off of Luke. He was simply being used as a plot device, rather than actually acting like his character would.All in all, it was just okay. I was a little bored and it just didn't do it for me. I don't think I'll be searching out any other books in this series.