Review: Good but frustrating and sad.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
For You is the first book in Kristen Ashley's The Burg series. Intense is too tame a word for this book. I love Kristen Ashley's books. Hell, I've read twelve of them. That said, I have issues with 'For You'. One in particular: the time frame.SPOILERS:Feb and Alec (Colt) were high school sweethearts. She walks in on him making out with another woman (the shiest woman in the world) on a bed and leaves without saying anything then dumps him the following day without telling him why a.k.a what she saw. Twenty years later, Alec still doesn't know what he did. We're not talking about five or ten years later. We're talking about TWENTY FREAKING YEARS! A woman, any woman who walks in on the love of her life making out on a bed with another woman would say something when she caught him or at least told him he'd been caught the day after when she broke it off. To me, it doesn't make sense. Had she done either, like a normal woman, she would've realized her boyfriend had been drugged, and it was all set-up by her stalker.Feb's stalker has been watching her since high school, drugged Alec, sent in the other woman whom he knew had a crush on Alec, so Feb could catch them in the act. It works. Feb catches Alec and breaks it off without so much as saying why. The other woman (shiest woman in the world) sees Feb walk in and feels guilty (she too had been drugged). Another guy, stalker's friend, watches all this. NO ONE SAYS anything for TWENTY YEARS! TWENTY YEARS!!!! And her stalker never makes a move for TWENTY YEARS! What was the purpose of breaking them up if he didn't plan to keep her himself? Instead the stalker marries another woman and goes on with his life. AGAIN, makes no sense.If it had been five or even ten years, I wouldn't have a problem, but in my opinion twenty years is too long a time frame for all of it.The book is good. I enjoyed it. At the same time, it left me feeling frustrated and sad. Yeah, sad. It teaches a valuable lesson that I had assumed everyone knew--communication.