Review: Cute story BUT then the pseudo incest RUINS it!!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2012
There WILL be SPOILERS here***READ THEM if you want to know about the title. The title is TRUE.If the title is sparking some curiosity and bafflement then I suggest you get over your aversion to spoilers and READ them because this is something potential readers should know.SPOILERS***This was a great little story. Girl from small town gets knocked up, about to tell boyfriend but he in turn tells her he's getting married to an ex girlfriend he knocked up. Sort of sounds like One Tree Hill doesn't it?Girl, Bella here tells her parents and they give her an ultimatum: give up the baby or leave. She chooses the latter obviously. Look at the cover.She moves to Cali, meets a good friend and somehow discovers designing children's clothes. Spanish man takes a liking and invest and she becomes a success.All the while, the father of her daughter never knew she was pregnant. When she's finally rich and successful, she goes back to her town, revitalizing it's textile mill and bringing back business. Her "best friend" and I say quote unquote because no TRUE friend goes over your head and slyly introduces someone to their father without their knowledge.Bella's daughter Melissa meets her father's son. The child from his marriage to the knocked up ex. Melissa and Todd hit it off and start dating. No sex happens BUT just the FACT that this wonderful, truly adorable story gets butchered and disgusting with the pseudo incest is a shame.Shame on you Ms. Ingram from stooping to this sensational level. This was a GREAT story. I actually stopped reading to say out loud "I'm loving it" then it's all "Oh noes!!!!! Melissa is falling in love with her half brother! We better hurry and FINALLY reveal the truth before they have sex" Which is fake because any 19 years old's falling as hard and fast as Melissa and Todd would have had sex from the 3rd date. But just the FACT that this story turns down that ridiculously disgusting alley is a SHAME.THEN it's all a joke. Bella gets to town to finally tell Jeffrey he's Melissa's father and she doesn't take it serously. If your daughter is having a relationship with her half brother you don't flake it off and go to sleep. You rush to get everything squared away and resolved because they're 19 year old kids. They SHOULD be having sex and you rush to tell them before they start rounding the bases.But it's all a joke because Todd isn't really Jeffery's son and Melissa's half brother. All this story, all this buildup and the ending is that hot mess of ridiculousness and rushed?A shame! This story was so good then it's rushed and "teased" with the salacious plot idea that Melissa is close to sealing the deal with her brother then he's not her brother? That's pseudo incest. Even joking and going down that line even if it turns out not to be real is just ridiculous and these so called adults just let it go. No matter that Melissa and Todd could have been having sex. The minute Bella's so called "best friend" Carla knew that Melissa was dating her "half brother" she should have done something but she just let it go. Like this NOT a big deal to people????? 3rd cousins isn't a big deal I don't think but biologically sharing at least one parent IS a big freaking deal.But it's all a joke.It's free now but DON'T waste your time. In the end, it's not worth it. It's like reading and rooting for the main character and falling for them then it turning into Psycho and then getting killed in the end.Not worth it!