Review: Undefeated
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
Some mild spoilers may be included. Sorry.The good:I loved the little note exchanging scenes. It was very cute.I LOVED Shane's inner thoughts to himself as he's fighting.Ripp is pretty darn entertaining.The bad:At one point Kace is all sorts of beat up. To the point where Ripp and Shane are trying to call an ambulance. She doesn't let them. So what happened next? NOTHING. They went about and had a normal summer afternoon BBQ? Really? Kace described herself as looking like a survivor of a horror flick or something like that- yet no one bothers to help clean her up? She doesn't bother getting cleaned up herself? It made no sense. "Yeah- I got beaten to bloody pulp, lets have some BBQ!"The fight scenes- OK the detailed blow by blow the first time was great. But when each and every fight scene from Shane's POV is quite simply a chapter's worth of play-by-play with a little bit of fun inner thoughts it gets boring fast. If this is to be categorized as a "romance" type book, then please think of what the target audience is. Most of us won't give a damn what kind of punches are being made or in what order. Less of those details and more actual story would have been awesome.Speaking of the story: I'm sorry Author Scott but I cannot, for the life of me, pinpoint exactly what the point of this book is. At first we are entirely focused on Kace and her issues. Ok. Great. So this is a book about an abused woman who's finally getting away and coming into her own. Only WAIT- she gets away and apparently doesn't need ANY healing time whatsoever nor does she have any emotional scars that we see. Hmmm... OK. Now we're what? About ⅔ of the way through. What now? OH- now Shane is going to all of the sudden have to face his demons that haven't been mentioned AT ALL really, during the entire book. Only that he hides in his hoodie. So then what? Oh right, Shane magically recovers from his demons too. So now what? Do these two have to figure out "how do we deal with these issues as a couple?" Nope. So again- what is the point? It's not about the struggles of an abused woman, it's not about a man overcoming his past. We skim over where the REAL heart of those issues would be with that magically healing bandaid.And then it just.... ends. And my brain is a jumbled mess because there just HAS to be a point. Sigh.Enough of that. There are significant editing/proof reading mistakes throughout. They seemed to get worse as the book progresses, which signifies that the editor and/or proofreader was perhaps a bit too close to this project and therefore missing things. Or maybe they didn't bother doing multiple read throughs before hand. I don't know. Just an observation.Overall: I think this concept of abused woman meets champion boxer COULD have been a really amazing story. But the ball was dropped and kind of kicked around instead of being picked up.