Review: Didn't work for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2014
I really wanted to fall in love with this story, Pieces of Me. The blurb intrigued, the cover enticed, the foundation of the story built upon a very sad story for the heroine. But in this classic story of broken girl meets her dream guy nothing really stood out for me as particularly different or interesting. The basic plot here has been done so many times in order to pull it off in a big way some aspect of the story really has to grab my attention. It’s written well throughout however the chapters became terse at points leaving me wondering what happened in a certain scene. There abrupt endings to chapters where I felt there could have been more to complete the scene adding extra insight and depth. The hero and heroine of the story, Cole and Delaney, didn’t feel natural to me as a couple at first. Cole’s character took a back seat to the horror living inside Delaney on a daily. He’s charming, funny, and charismatic definitely, but some comments he made and actions turned me off from him. He also didn’t have a huge plot line; he was just sort the knight in shining armor with no real depth to his character. Delaney struggled through the first half of the book with trying to convince her to be a “normal” freshman in college. I sympathized with her, felt for her, when the horrors she faced were uncovered. However, when her relationship with Cole became a relationship I never felt any real change or growth. The secondary characters, Grace especially, lent a shining light through a lot of the story for me. Pieces of Me is the first book in this new adult series and on the shorter side compared to other books of its genre.