Review: Cute Story With Major Issues
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2012
This book had great potential. The writer seemed to point out a lot of legitimate problems with IR relationships. What went wrong with the book is it had too many issues. First, the lead lady Shauna was a woman who just could not make up her friggin' mind about whether she was ashamed of being seen with Miles or not. And when they argued about it, never really set the issue straight as to where it wouldn't be thrown in her face again. Second, there so much negativity the relationship between Miles and Shauna could go no where but down. Shauna and Miles were constantly at war with each other except when it came to sex and that had been her main issue all along. If the two couldn't make it a week without verbally sparring, then why be together? And his off the side, eager Rita -- personally that character had me applauding only because she didn't care about anything but getting laid. IMO Miles was more reasonable than Shauna, who the reader is lead to believe is the more practical one. I felt there were too many details on the innerworkings of cable companies, too much on the white/black issue that wasn't resolved between the couple, too much sex and bickering over indecisiveness along with a lack of development between Miles getting to know her daughter, Shauna dealing with finalizing her relationship with Mr. I'm-Too-Sexy-For-Myself Clarance and Celeste, who wasn't supportive despite how the writer seemed to state otherwise. If I brought a man to meet a friend and she went off on him like Celeste did, no matter what color he was, she would have been on my bad side for a very long time. And the ending was done poorly. Why stop with Miles being attacked by dogs, Shauna searching and not finding him until reaching home where he's sitting on the stoop waiting for her at which point everything is sunshine and lemonade between the two, the end. Huh?