Review: not sure how to rate this one...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2013
I wanted to give this short read a four star but I decided to go with an in between, average of a three star rating instead. NOTE, there are some spoilers in my review.First, I actually didn't realize this was a short story. I thought it was a "normal" length romance--until I realized I was already 63% into the story. It just felt like I was reading a longer story. Which confused me as to why this was so short--and it is an incredibly fast read. The story reads as if there should just be more in the space of beginning and ending. This kinda brings down the entire book. All the characters need more development, like Reginald. Yeah, he gives the heroine the creeps, but I felt as if there just have been more to him to make me feel as if he's really the creep she feels he is--after all, he just checks her out and hints he just wants her for sex because of her "reputation". A creep? No, more like a normal, horny guy. Then there's the underdeveloped H/h. The guy needs more time to make him look good--not just make the heroine feel good. And the lady needs more time to make her seem like the stronger woman the author, most likely, wanted her to be.Then you have the "action" in the book. I mean, really, the only conflict (besides the norm H/h love problems) is the short lived fight between the hero and brother. Which, to me, seemed like it ended kinda pathetically. There were many situations that the author could've added in to make this book great; but instead, we're given an amazing romance plot, no depth characters, no REAL story beyond the basics, and a feeling of being cut way too short on this book.Overall, the book is written wonderfully with very, very few flaws that I noticed (though I was told missing commas are partially to be blamed because of the transfer into the e-book form of where the book's going to be sold). Despite my issues with the story, I loved this story--I just wished it was longer! This is definitely a story that had great potential but didn't quite reach it.Would I recommend this? Only if you're prepared to read a short story with the knowledge that, although it's a good romance, there's just not enough room for character/plot development! However, I'll look out for more reads by this author.