Review: So many mixed emotions
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
Let me start by saying this is the second Melanie Shawn book I read, and although I'd also rated 3 stars the first one, I had faith in what I saw and was curious to read another story from.Sadly, it had some of the same problems I'd detected in the other book, the main one being... it dragged out a looooot. I wasn't able to keep reading and started skipping phrases and paragraphs, which is extremely annoying. But really, some stuff just couldn't be emphasized enough and were even repeated in the same words, only in different pages along the story. I'm not sure this is something an editor could fix, since it's in the author's style of writing. Still, I wish she could be more objective.Another big issue in this story was that some things didn't make sense... first of all, Geoffrey. Seriously, Amanda didn't exactly sound to me like a woman that would tolerate a man like him. She had had a good childhood, although she lost her mother at an early age and, mostly of all, she had such a great example of man inside her home, I just don't understand how she could settle for such a prick.And then Justin was back and it was clear she still loved him. Except, he left once, so he could live again. Well, first of all, their interactions didn't make much sense and Justin pissed me off a lot at some points (like with the waitress). He keeps going back and forth between getting Amanda back and running away. The story just goes up and down, left and right, all the time, and it got tiring at one point.Again, some really good dialogues, as I'd noticed in the first book I read, especially the ones involving the Fabulous Four. They are some great characters and I'm truly curious to read about their stories, but I don't think I'll read another book from Melanie so soon. I see a lot of potential... some people just know how to write, how to make it sound fluid and... heck, I don't really know how to explain it. But really, I think she could really amaze me one of these days, but I'm not too inclined to try other stories from her right now.