Review: Could not finish
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2013
I tried to finish this book after putting it down and picking it up several times over the course of a week, but I was unsuccessful. It just moved waaaaay too slowly for me. I called it quits around 35%, and at that point very little had happened yet. I felt like I had read the same scene over and over again.  Chelsea and Xander keep running into each other at the pool, he talks dirty and touches her inappropriately, and she pants with need. That is it.  The conversations between the characters were dull, even though the author did her best attempt at making them sexy, and as a reader I have a lot of trouble connecting to characters when their behavior is not realistic. In the real world if a man were to start fondling a woman within minutes of meeting her, before even asking her what her name was, he would be considered a jerk, not a romantic hero. Also, it is a personal pet peeve of mine when foreign authors incorporate words/slang that do not correlate with where the characters are from. In this case both characters are American, but they use a lot of British terms that just do not fit. Overall, this book just did not hold my interest at all.  Someone who enjoys a very slow build up may love it.