Review: Freefall to a Crash Landing.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2013
I'm a little surprised with all the high praises for this book.  I personally wanted to throw it against the wall for 3/4's of it.  I thought the premise had a lot of promise but the characters' personalities and actions had me cringing and rolling my eyes.  The story starts with a young girl's heart being broken by Mr. "High School Hot Shot" (our h and H).  So far, so good. Then we're thrust into the future where they have a chance meeting. I was hoping for the H to have lost his "jerk" ways but once he recognizes her (and thinks how sorry he is about what he'd done to her all those years ago)...he doesn't tell her that or apologize!  Instead he acts like a cat in heat, spends the entire book throwing himself on her and calls her every pet name in the book... "Honey", "Sweetheart", yuk!  As does his twin brothers who we're supposed to like and find endearing.  I'm sorry, but a truly smart woman would know that the kinds of guys who throw around pet names are the kinds of guys who rotate girls so much; they can't remember their actual names.  Yet, our "smart" heroine eats it up and wants nothing but to jump the guy who treated her like crap anyway.  I was so disappointed in her...does she have no pride or self worth?  And I was disappointed in the author's idea of a "good guy". I honestly believe that we can all change and that we all deserve second chances which was what this book was about...but the Hero never came off as if he had changed. We were TOLD that he had but I personally like to be shown, not told, when I read a story and I just didn't buy it.  I could go on and on but if you buy this book, you'll find out for yourself.