Review: I didn't like it
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
I got this as a freebie via one of the sites I follow. I'm a little conflicted about NA romance, I enjoy it if it's well written but sometimes the drama gets to me. I didn't find the reviews of this particularly helpful so I'm going to be a bit more detailed with mine. As the summary tells us, the h moves to a small town to get away from all the drama happening in her own life. She makes up a fictitious name and begins working in a small restaurant/bar. She sublets an apartment for the Summer as she intends going back to Boston after Summer. She meets the H, who is renting the apartment below hers. The H is supposed to be a bit of a tortured soul, who lost his younger brother in a car accident a few years before. The H is a womaniser and never has a serious relationship. The h had been dumped by her serious boyfriend of 3 years and she is recovering from a broken heart. All of this sounds like a good premise for the book.+++Spoilers+++What I'm not a fan of, and never will be, is a womanising H who continues to have one night stands long after he's met the h. The other thing I loathe is when the h is blamed/takes blame more than the womanising H. Here the h keeps her identity a secret for good reasons and is about to tell the H but after a night together, her secret is exposed before she has time to confess. The H takes off and hooks up with an ex. Granted they don't have sex but only because he gets so drunk and doesn't remember. He was happy to go off with, share a motel room with her etc. His thoughts are that there are 1000's of women out there. He's angry because the h lied to him. When he returns home to speak to her, he sees the h with another man and we read 'She was with another guy. After 24 hours?', so he takes off AGAIN without speaking to her. Double standards as usual. The h is the one who grovels, who visits him after the accident he has. He, of course, refuses to see her when she comes to the hospital, because he hears that she's there with someone else. It just all is so 'high school' for me and I didn't like the H. I felt more sympathy for the h's ex, (and I hate guys who hook up with someone else after they've just broken up with a serious girlfriend), who realises he's made a huge mistake and he comes to find the h and make things right.I know not everyone shares my views and so if they don't they may enjoy this book. The author mentions that this was her first book and I might try another one to see how she's progressed. I did like the sound of a secondary character, Lucas, and I might read his book.