Review: Male POV didn't work for me
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2012
This is a good story. First read for me by this author. I suppose the book has a YA feel to it as the heroine is only 17 and still at school but there is a lot of sex in this book and hardly any school, so it can be classed as MA.Rowan is 17. Her mother died when she was young and she lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic abusive father. When he gets drunk, he hits her. Over the years she has managed to avoid him when he is drunk but on one particular evening he catches her unawares and she leaves and tries to ring her best friend Sara. Instead, Sara's older Brother Logan answers. Rowan has known Logan all her life. Sara and Logan's parents are very good to Rowan and she stays at their house a lot. Logan is 7 years older. He has a girlfriend and he has a good career ahead of him in Law and will soon move halfway across the Country. Rowan herself will soon leave for a Scholarship she has earned in Dance. She has a year left of school and then she can escape her life with her abusive father.Once Logan receives the phone call from a distressed Rowan, he feels the need to care for her. He tells her anytime she wants to avoid her Father, she should come and stay with him in his apartment. He assures her that he won't tell his parents or sister about the abuse she suffers at the hands of her father as she has always kept it a secret from them all and she still doesn't want them to find out especially as within a year, she will be able to leave her father and start a new life in Michigan.Spending so much time together, Rowan and Logan start to develop feelings for one another and Logan soon dumps his girlfriend. However, he feels he is too old for Rowan and even though their relationship becomes sexual, he will not take her virginity and make love to her. The closer they get, the more Rowan wants Logan to make love to her but everytime he refuses, he hurts her more and more until she has had enough and ends their romantic relationship, especially as soon Logan will be leaving for his job in Denver.This is a well told story but the problem I had was Logan's POV is very similar to Rowan's and his reads like a female POV same as Rowan. Some of his inner thoughts are very girlie for a man!!I thought more could have been made of their break up..I also couldn't understand why they couldn't confess their love for one another but I could see why they felt a relationship was out of the question with their age difference and the fact Rowan had a 4 year scholarship and Logan had his dream job so far away. However, they both miss each other and then something awful happens to Rowan that makes them realise they can have a HEA.The sex scenes in this book are very good. Their relationships develops at a good pace. I did think Logan could have been a bit more responsible when things did progress on the sexual front!We get an epilogue but what we don't get is any information on what happened to Rowan's father.I am going to read the authors other book next which I believe is a completely different type of novel. I look forward to it.