Review: contrived
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2012
There are just too many things that do not work here.This book is not satisfying as a romance not only because there is no happy end but also because I never got to see Brian and Damon overcome their differences to really become an item. To the last page they look castaways thrown together by fate and kept together by lack of initiative.They do not grow up together and their love only seem to add to their insecurities.It does not work as a drama because nearly all the mishaps feel gratuitous.Too many bad things just happen to the characters in a time so short as to make suspension of disbelief nearly impossible.Writing does not help. Mr Conway has this distintive style made of short, clipped sentences bound in short, dry paragraphs that does suit neither genre (typos, missing words and a couple of grammar mistakes did not help either).I could not laugh because I found no humour in any page, I could not cry because I never really cared for the characters nor for the endless string of troubles they go through.All in all this book just annoyed and sometimes even bored me.