Review: Where's the Middle?  (Spoiler Alert)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2013
This is really more of a 2 and a half star book for me, but because it wasn't made clear that it was a novella, I'm not in the mood to give the extra half star for benefit of the doubt.  I really wanted to like this story.  The premise was enchanting, the characters were very likeable and believable, but the middle of the story just wasn't there.  They literally went from her hating him and him being indifferent to her to them quite suddenly thinking about each other all of the time and wanting to be together.  It was almost as if the author had written this perfectly good novel and then right before it was sent out, some editor decided that it needed to be a novella (yeah, it's not full length and they don't tell you that either or I wouldn't have even bought this) and just chopped out the middle without giving the author time to go back and rework it.I also felt that there was never any reason given for why the male lead (I've forgotten his name already) didn't have any clue as to why everyone thought he was a jerk for giving the female lead's (forgot her name too) dogs away less than a week after her step-father died.  There's also no real progression from his inexplicably wanting the dogs gone to him deciding to get most of them back for her and suddenly deciding that he loves them all and does want them all around.  There's also some ridiculous bit about her deciding to marry some male friend of hers that she suddenly realized is kind of revolting, as if that hadn't been pretty clear before.I was very disappointed that this was a novella, they don't call it that, don't give an amount of pages, just a file size, which is meaningless to someone whose not familiar with what that means as far as book length.  I only paid a dollar, but since I don't usually buy novellas, I feel cheated for even having spent that.  I would be willing to try a full length novel by this author on the strength of her ability to come up with a good premise and likeable characters, also the strength of the first part of the book, it was pretty good and went at a nice pace, hence my confusion when the story suddenly skipped to the end.