Review: How I Met Your Father
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
I loved this book. It was a short, quick read which for a slow reader like me can be fabulous. It only took me a day to finish.HOW I MET YOUR FATHER started off rather slow. There's quite a few pages describing the airplane and Justin's uneasiness with the turbulence until Jack is introduced. I felt like all of those pages really could have been boiled down to a few paragraphs or something.The ending was a bit jarring. There is the actual ending to the story, which very abruptly during the vacation. After that there is the epilogue that takes place a year later. It's a bit harsh to go from Jack and Justin contently talking about their relationship to one year in the future. Perhaps the transition could have been done differently.Because this deals with a former boy band, there's the author had to create four different personalities for the boys in the band. Frankly, I thought they all blended together and had a difficult time telling them apart. Every one of them loved to drink and had a witty sense of humor. But I totally admit that I had the Backstreet Boys in my head when picturing the characters since I was a total Backstreet Girl back in the day.This book was set on a tropical island which was such a fantastic and unique setting for a wedding and Christmas story.The chemistry between Jack and Justin was incredibly wonderful. L.B. Gregg portrayed an amazing relationship in so few pages! Those two are very different, in personalities and in age but they compliment each other so well. They also have a great physical attraction towards one another; Jack and Justin have sex in an airport bathroom after meeting on the airplane.Despite having a hard time to tell the other characters apart, I enjoyed the friendships and familial relationships. They were all solid. The conversations were realistic. I loved that everyone in the boy band had gone back into private life.