Review: Great Potential, But Not Enough Romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2013
This is a great story if you're looking for a quick read, but it's really more of what's often referred to as "chick lit" than romance. Kate is, as the title suggests, just "one of the guys." She has a close-knit group of male friends who she gets together with for a weekly poker game. She's been sleeping with one of the guys in a strictly "friends with benefits" relationship; though he wants more, she's unwilling to go there. In the meantime, she does want to pursue one of the other guys for a relationship, but he's not interested in anything serious and she's ready to settle down.At first, the book starts off pretty tediously. There is an actual play-by-play account of a few hands of poker. There are almost excruciatingly detailed conversations between Kate and her friends. And there's too much about her parents that would have balanced a full length novel but distract from this rather short novella. These don't really add to the story, except to its length, and I almost put this aside and stopped reading. But at some point, Kate decides that she's not going to desperately pursue her friend, and that's when the book gets more interesting.Without spoiling the book, I will say that Kate finds romance in the end, but this book would have been so much better if we'd seen more of that and less of the details about her parents and the men who she didn't end up with. I'm willing enough, though, to give this author another shot in the future.