Review: In Review: Lost in Flight (Complicated Love #1) by Neeny Boucher
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
It's appropriate that this book is the first in a series titled Complicated Love, because the best word to describe Christina and Riley's relationship is "complicated." It's also real, intense, less than perfect and thoroughly exhausting. But I don't mean any of those things in a bad way.Christina (Dina) and Riley have a past. They were childhood sweethearts who married young and divorced quite the opposite of amicably a few years ago. He lives in Washington and she in Washington, DC. Then an accident with one of Dina's siblings brings her back to town and into Riley's life again. After a night out with friends, Dina goes to Riley to scratch an itch and their drama begins again. They just can't keep away from each other, regardless of how imperfect things are when they're together... outside of the bedroom, anyhow. Inside it is the one place they don't seem to have any trouble. There's no doubt these two have chemistry and that they feel deeply for each other. It's just more complicated than that.This book was full of complex, and mostly likable, characters. I feel like I was able to get a good handle on each of them, too. The friend and family dynamics were nearly as interesting to me as that of Dina and Riley's back and forth romance. I enjoyed the plot, but the characters and the depth Neeny brought to them is what truly made this book for me. Everything about them – from the dialogue to their relationships – felt completely realistic. This was an interesting group of friends that I look forward to reading more about.Not only is Lost in Flight told from both Dina and Riley's perspectives, but also in the present and the past. The story jumped around quite a bit and it was easy to get a little confused if you're like me and tend to skip over chapter headings. I had to train myself to pay attention to the headings to figure out what timeline we were in now. The dual perspectives worked very well for me, however. Both Dina and Riley had clear voices. I never questioned whose chapter I was reading.Lost in Flight isn't light and fluffy or difficult to read. It falls somewhere in the middle for me. It didn't evoke a lot of emotion in me, but I did like and connect with the characters and wanted to see what would ultimately happen with them in the end. This book does end with a bit of a cliffhanger, but the ending was still mostly satisfying. I am interested to see which character(s) the next book will follow.I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.