Review: Ok Writing, Unlikeable Characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
So first the good - the writing was decent, and the book wasn't full of typos and spelling errors. The bad - the characters were both wimps. Total wimps. They are both engaged, they both don't really want to be, and yet neither can muster up the backbone to definitively end it with their fiances.MILD SPOILER ALERTS BELOW:The heroine at least tries, though in the most wishy-washy way possible. She goes into panic attack mode at the sign of any confrontation, whether with her mother or with another teacher in the school. It is almost pathological. But at least she tries, and does say the words, though no one takes her seriously.  Her fiancé seems borderline abusive and controlling, making it at least clear why she's nervous to confront him.But there is no point in the story where we see the hero break it off with his significant other, even at the very end. In fact, he leaves her helping to set up a high school dance as a favor FOR HIM as he rides off to let the heroine know he loves her and isn't getting married. It is never made clear if the fiancé even knows the wedding is off! She (the fiancé) is a bit of a control freak and probably would be happier with someone else, but doesn't seem to be a terrible person or anything, and deserves better than to be the last to know like that. It made me really dislike him.So, overall, I just couldn't like the book because I couldn't like the main characters. I'm not convinced they love each other, either, since they barely know each other. Their relationship seems like a classic rebound situation.