Review: I liked book in spite of ...SPOILERS
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
Spoilers: I am with the group of readers who dislike reading about cheating heroes and heroines.  I go out of my way to avoid reading books that contain them.  Usually when I read a book where one of the main character cheats, I get mad and delete the book from my library.  This book was one of the few exceptions.  I still liked the story in spite of the cheating because I liked a lot of other things about it.The story kept my interest.  I felt a variety of emotions while reading  which is not my usual response.  I really liked both Aston, the H, and Sebastian the boyfriend/fiancee. I liked that the author did not take the easy way out and make Sebastian have undesirable qualities or be a cheater too. Sebastian was a great guy.  He was a good faithful boyfriend who provided as much emotional support as he could being away.  He loved her and cared about her well being.  He treated her and their daughter well.  Ashton too was likable. He was a dedicated doctor, loving, faithful to Ava, the h, and was a great support system for her.  The only thing that detracted from how much I liked him is that he knowingly entered into a sexual relationship with a woman who was engaged and had a baby with another man who was out of the country and not able to there.  Otherwise Aston was ideal.  Caleb, Ava's best friend was great too.  He gave her 100 percent support, doing everything from leaving a foreign country that he was at work as soon as he heard that she needed him to living with her to make things easier on her.  He helped her when she was sick. He was at the hospital a lot, spending time both with the baby and Ava when he was not working.While I felt sorry for Ava because what she went through as a child and with her baby and brother in the present, she irritated me.  I know that she was going through a difficult time and was abused in the past but she seemed to whine, cry and complain  too much.  Also she was occasionally mean to people who were just trying to help her, including the hospital staff.  It made me mad how she treated Caleb.  She used him and like her relationship with Aston and Sebastian, it seemed one sided.  Everything was always about her.  IMO she was selfish.  Also, it was wrong for her to sleep with Ashton before breaking up with Sebastian.  While Sebastian still would have been hurt, it would be easier handle if she was not cheating on him too.  She betrayed him and hurt his trust of people. He never suspected that she was capable of doing that to him.  Given how selfish she acted, it was not surprising to me.  A few of the characters mannerism got on my nerves.  Aston was always smirking at Ava.  As we know, smirking is to smile in an irritatingly smug, conceited, or silly way.  Aston was described as an extremely attractive man.  Why detract from that by having him frequently smirk? Also there were a few grammar mistakes but not many.  I would be willing to read another book by this author because she did a good job.