Review: Too Short
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
This book was a novella, but there was enough emotional baggage to make it into a much longer, much more complete and much more satisfying book.The whole fallout between Kate and her twin and her (now ex) Shane is barely even mentioned.  The romance between Kate and Henry was handled really well, but there's so much story that goes unsaid that it's ridiculous.  Shane, her fiance, cheated on her with her TWIN. Other than a couple sentences here and there, the author never really goes into how this effects Kate... it actually doesn't seem to at all except that she gets mad once in a while and then a couple sentences later isn't thinking about it again.  Um... what?!  I couldn't fully get into Kate and Henry because she had so much unresolved stuff going on with the break up that JUST HAPPENED.  How do we know she's really over Shane? HOW did she get over Shane so quickly?  How is the fact that he cheated on her with her TWIN affecting her mental state?Other than giving her a decent excuse to head to the middle of nowhere for Christmas, it doesn't seem to be affecting her at all from the moment she meets Henry.  And that's just unrealistic and kind of silly.  I just couldn't get emotionally involved because of the complete lack of emotional depth.  There are some novellas that don't need the full length of a book to tell a complete and satisfying story... this isn't one of them.  However, if you don't mind a story that's focused on the falling in love part rather than on the healing and THEN falling in love part, this is a decent little romantic novella for a good price... it just could have been so much more.