Review: A little too short for happily ever after
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2013
I found this book as a free ebook on Kindle, so I decided to check out this author.  This story didn't do it for me, but I liked the writing style enough that I'm still reading more by this author.  The story is about two lawyers on opposite sides.  They've worked on and off against each other for years.  Bryn's been attracted to Daniel for a while but won't act on anything because of his profession.  Daniel didn't even take notice of Bryn until he overhears her talking about how he's a player.  Then the idea's been planted in his head, he can't believe he missed out beautiful she is, etc. He asks her out, manipulates their mutual friend into arranging a date and still gets turned down by Bryn. Bad things happen and Bryn decides she really does care about Daniel.  She goes to his house to comfort him, which turns into sex and then they decide they can work out their problems because they're meant to be together.I felt there was a lot of telling instead of showing with this novel.  Being only 83 pages, some of that is to be expected, but it felt like we didn't get to see any of Daniel and Bryn actually getting to know each other.  From the time Bryn turns him down, there are a few pages afterwards of us being told that they occasionally talk in the halls and/or think about each other.  Then tragedy strikes and now they know they can work things out - forgiving themselves and each other for their misconceptions and live happily ever after.  I didn't feel invested in their relationship mostly because we don't actually see them having a relationship.