Review: Unbelievable
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2011
I have read many books with in this genre. They seem to fall into two categories. Either they are well written, well thought out love stories that just happen to have more than one partner in the mix. (Note: Maya Bank's Colters' series.) Or the stories are like this book: The Perfect Union. Too quick with the declaration of love. Too quick agreeing to a relationship like the men were proposing, and too quick with the sex. Even the acceptance from friends and family seemed to be automatic, as if this type of relationship happened every day.It is obvious to me that the writer wanted to get the three together so that their sexual attraction can be written. I am a writer as well, so I believe I understand the motivation. She probably had a series of ideas she wanted to accomplish with the book. But I believe she rushed through them, as if doing so off of a check list. Situations have to be worked through carefully and slowly if they are to be believable.Finding love, especially after the death of someone that meant a lot to a person, isn't easy. Sure, there are those times when the sparks fly, but the widow or widower often feels squeamish about having another relationship. Add children to the mix and, I'm sorry, they don't have sex on the kitchen floor when their children are due home any minute. A mother will do what she can to shield her children and reassure them that they are what is most important to her.The way Rick and Conor are accepted by the children is believable, don't get me wrong. They were in the boys' lives since they were infants. The children never knew their father so having them around was normal to them. But I am only half way through the book, and no where did Calleigh wonder what their father would think bringing someone else (or two someones) into their lives as a father figure.I don't understand Calleigh's spouting of their relationship to strangers either. And the storyline about the coworker who thought he was her boyfriend was so unbelievable, especially since he wasn't mentioned since the only date they had months before.As I said, I have only read half of this book. I haven't gotten to the part where Kevin's parents show up, but I'm sure it will be as the rest of the book is. Contrite and off of the same checklist.The prose is choppy. The conversations are more than choppy. I don't feel that this story is anything more than a poor version of what can be found on one of the erotic story sites. I'm sure that Ms. Lane had good intentions, but I feel that this story could have been so much more if it didn't seem as though it was rushed, and if it had more feelings in it. I guess what I am trying to say is that this story 'tells' us what is happening. We don't 'feel' it. Just because it is written down, doesn't mean that it is so. The reader has to feel the events unfold before she can believe that they are happening.I gave it one star instead of none because the sex scenes were believable, not contrived positions that only the author would see. I felt no passion between the three lovers, no angst, no real love and affection. All I have seen so far is sex.Yes, the sex is good. I will give it that. But please... Nothing else is believable.