Review: Real people REAL romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2011
'Overcoming' is a real life romance. I swear I know these people, lolLike other people have said cable or rather the installing of cable is a VERY real part of this book. I didnt mind it too much but at times it was a bit much and I skipped over it. It was a very eye opening book though, I had no idea cable installer had it so rough! Poor things. I LOVED the call center aspect, because that's real. that is EXACTLY how it is. Horrible customers, management who doesn't really do anything, co-workers who gossip for nothing...that really enhanced my enjoyment because i work at a call center for a internet company so go figure.I found the heroine to be really needy at times without reason. She was ALWAYS calling him several times and yet he never called her...And the funny thing is she tried to play it cool but in reality she was quite the opposite. I really liked the fact that the hero had to help her overcome the issue of being "frigid" It was different to read and boy did she overcome it.Hero was just a reg guy who had a crappy marriage and just wanted things to be simple. He had a great friends with benefits partner who wanted no strings which he liked. However, when he finally got with the heroine he really didnt want his fwb anymore. He didn't have any problems committing to her even though he wanted to be commitment free.One of the conflicts in the book was how when they were together, the heroine would suddenly drop his hands or whatever which irked him. He already had a similar issues with another coworker of his who would ditch him the minute they would see another black person. There was a lot of prejudice they both had to work through.There was also a subplot with her best friend and his...they apparently knew each other back in college so I'm surprise their path didn't cross. I do believe the end of the story said there would be a sequel so that could be the the reason behind the lackluster ending...