Review: Contrived angst throughout...it was so tiring
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2013
This book made me tired reading it.Forget the editing issues - they weren't unmanagable - mostly missing words, but the constant "Oh woes me, I'm 26 and a virgin and I am so plain and unappealing that I might as well just forget the idea that anyone could ever just want more than sex from me even though no one ever has even wanted that before because I hide away in case I get my feelings hurt and I know I have a beautiful twin sister (I mean, really?) but no one would really ever want me" attitude that was pervasive in the first 3rd of the book (that's as far as I've gotten to this point) was redundant and bordered on silly.  She admits to wearing clothes 2 sizes too big, has a very attractive twin sister but is plain and unappealing?  So she's just going to go for the one-night stand because the very nice, gentlemanly, gorgeous detective who wants to make things special, sends her flowers and wants to take things slow and see what develops between them so obviously could not be interested in her really and will just get bored once they actually do it (she has so much experience with that one being a virgin and all) in order to protect herself and her feelings?I just couldn't buy all that and thought to myself, why am I reading a book with all this contrived angst when I could read a book where I can escape for a couple hours, not get all annoyed over the implausibility of the angst?  There are good things about this book - the hero is really nice to the heroine so far and the chemistry is good, their encounters are well written and the plot premise is good too.  But I don't get nearly enough time to read as it is and didn't want to spend the rest of my Sunday afternoon with this book when I know I have many others that won't be tiring to read.I really will try and go back to finish and will update this review accordingly, but for today, I just need a break from it.