Review: Not a winner for me
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2013
Clearly, I am just a glutton for punishment.Well, I had read the first two, so naturally I wanted to put an end to this. My morbid curiosity alone had me wanting to know what happened when Nolan left and went back to California to aid his ill mother. Hey, this was a self-proclaimed player who had no ability to be faithful and wanted to try and be faithful for the sake of his "Bunny"...so clearly his time away from her would be challenging. It would mean either a victory and no sex or a stumble and fall and a reversion back to what he once was...a player.This was a clusterf*ck from beginning to end and, with the exception of the epilogue, I had no idea why two people were so pathetic and stupid.While it is clear that we all handle grief a certain way, Natalie was truly as selfish as they come. She was a hypocrite, blind, and cruel. She chose to ignore rational behavior, rational thought and blatant truths to try and prove a point to herself while hurting Nolan.With her own eyes and ears she saw and heard the evidence, yet chose to continue keeping on. I have never in my life had such blatant disinterest in a character, so much so that I found myself cheering on Tyler and hoping that her stupidity and poor conscious decisions led her down the path of being a statistic. She was so caught up with being hurtful and making a point she did not care about anyone, not even herself, yet she tried to convince herself she did, so much so she chose to talk herself out of her own warnings and doubts.In this book, while I did find some sympathy for Nolan, I never quite understood what in the world he was holding back for. There were so many things he needed to say to Natalie, yet he never once said it. In particular, telling her what Sharon told him the night he found Natalie wandering hurt...what were these idiots thinking?In this book, the only character with any real merit was Mills. The series of events that took place while somewhat believable, only became the backstory in comparison to the way that they all behaved and didn't behave. After giving us a story where Nolan begs and pursues Natalie for a whole book to get her to trust him, date him, and so on, I found it very hard to believe all that he DID NOT DO and DID NOT SAY.All of that equated to poor character development, blatant contradictions and inconsistencies and a plot that while it could have had merit, did not stay together but fell apart because there was nothing of believable substance holding it together.Once again, NOT A WINNER FOR ME. Based on the epilogue, I am going to assume this story is over, so I no longer need to worry about my morbid curiosity creeping up on me again.