Review: a lightning quick, easy read with a story that poured itself out of the pages
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
CEO Greg is a longtime family friend of the Halverson's. When he and Elise Halverson sleep together two days before his wedding day, neither could predict the effects.I hate cheaters. Right down to my core. I see a movie with someone cheating on their spouse and my face immediately puckers.  I cannot say enough how grateful I am this book begin in the point of view of Elise and not the bride. I would have hated the little homewrecker.Talk about putting the cart before the horse, this contained a sex scene fairly early on in the book. Many movies begin with sex but sex in books is different. The reviews I write for the magazine have a special rating scale for books with sex and non-erotic romance novels with sex that occur before two-thirds of the book are immediately ranked differently. Sex before readers have a chance to fully get to know characters and care about them can often feel crass and offensive. Thus, the rating. This book though did not have that same sort of cheap, raunchy feeling. While difficult to pull off, this author made it seem effortless. This goes to show that sometimes you can break the rules when your story tells you it must be done. Absolutely brilliant!What a story it was. Succinct chapters ended with the wispy feel of tying the tale together.  The story jumped around in time, with such twists, weaving together a web of seemingly meaningless details. Yet, looking back I can see that this was done actually to leave out extraneous pieces and reduce filler while building characters. I appreciate this fully.I am still not clear on one event in the book. Explanations seemed a little far-fetched. I cannot imagine the characters having that many coincidences. Thank goodness that was not central to the plot.There were some writing issues but not much. The flip-flopping points of view appeared to be first person rewritten as third person. There was a problem with commas and the method of thinking by the characters was a little odd at times. It is nothing another round of editing/polishing could not easily smooth out and fix. As a reader, it is noticeable but not really bothersome.Overall, this was a lightning quick, easy read with a story that poured itself out of the pages. Outside of the necessary one-night stand in the beginning, this was fairly clean.  However because of its graphic nature, I recommend this for adults, especially those who love contemporary romance novels.