Review: Sweet
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
This is my first story by this author. It was a sweet story. At 150 pgs I hesitate to call it short, it’s more of a mid–range read. I do admit to having difficulty with the lower class, old English dialect. I found myself reading those sections more than once to figure out what was being said. The way the author just kind of threw the dialect in there from time to time made it feel disjointed. Not necessarily anything wrong with the scene itself, just the new dialect distracted the flow.I liked Taffy and her relationship with her brother and uncle. The author did a great job describing the awkwardness involved for three people who were always more like partners in crime. For one to all of a sudden become the guardian over the other two would indeed be a difficult adjustment. Her bold straight forward attitude made her fun and entertaining.Hotspur was a little more difficult. I felt the author lost out on a few opportunities to flesh out his character better. I had no trouble reading between the lines, but I can’t help but feel I would have enjoyed the story better if certain things were explained in more detail. For instance, the references to politics. From that I got that he obviously worked for the government in some type of undercover aspect, but we were left mostly guessing there. He just kind of disappeared for days at a time with no real explanation.A few people mentioned over the top sex scenes, which confused me. There was one sex scene, and to say it was over the top makes me wonder what they’ve been reading. It’s not vanilla, and it’s not technically glossed over, but it’s not explicit either. It’s just kinda there. An impassioned scene the author felt had a place in that part of the book. The only thing I can truly say is that it irrevocably changed their relationship.Overall I liked the story, it was cute and engaging. I wouldn’t mind reading other books by this author.