Review: Not Your Ordinary Romance - But I Couldn't Put it Down
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
If you are searching for a sweet, sappy romance peopled by a knight in shining armor and a virgin, you need to keep looking. But if you are seeking a romance that you simply can't put down because you have to see how it ends, this book may be for you.As I got to know the two main characters in the story, they put me in mind of other couples I've met over the years, Brick and Maggie, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof come immediately to mind as do Henry and Eleanor from the Lion in Winter and George and Martha  from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Both Caden and Marie have serious issues with trust and security and communication - boy do they have communication problems. They also like to play some serious head games with one another. But the author writes them so well and makes them so true to their neuroses that you simply have to know if they are ever going to work it out and if so--how?Their story is one of serious relationship transgressions, a woman who is too insecure to trust and believes that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, a man who doesn't seem to know how to forgive until he's had his vengeance in SPADES and two people who simply can't tell one another the truth or show their true emotions long enough to straighten everything out. The extremes to which they both go keep you reading because the author tells the tale so well you can actually believe that these two people would go to those extremes.I don't ordinarily like first person novels; however this author uses first person to tell Marie's POV and third person to tell Caden's. In a lesser writer, this wouldn't work, but Ms Brogan makes it work because she writes so well. The sex is well-written and hot for those who like it that way (I do), but the relationship drama is what kept me glued to the book until the end.You may finish this book being completely upset by the characters or cheering because they finally, FINALLY get it right, But I seriously doubt that you'll be bored.