Review: 4 stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
Wow ... I mean just ... wow. I should've hated this book. I really should have. The characters are fundamentally flawed and a bit broken and just not good people ... and there is so much yelling which, fifteen years ago, would send me running into a small dark enclosed space to hide and cry.Plus while there is some growth, it's not like this epic epiphany that has a bad girl or bad boy turning into some stepfordized version of themselves who sings in the forest with tiny animals and only wore white linen outfits that they never got dirty.Oh, right, that's why I loved it.Because, in spite of everything else, these two worked together.  They really, really did.  They're effed up beyond belief, from beginning to end, but they still manage to complete each other.  To make each other crazy and yet happy.I dunno why, but sometimes you just need a reminder that, even in romance novels, life isn't perfect.(And I'm not doing the what I loved and what I didn't in this review, because what I loved was the dysfunction of it all and what I didn't love was that I loved it ... since there was some gritty shit that normally has me sneering and this time just had me turning the pages)Who I'd recommend it to:Anyone who likes a little grit in their romances and who doesn't mind the lack of white knights and/or heroic ladies and/or the transformation from toad into prince(ss)