Review: "That's Dallis, like the city"...um isn't that Dallas?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2013
Dallis was such a sour and horrible "heroine," I had to stop reading about 25% into the book. The two tragedies she experiences are sad indeed, but she is simply a self centered, self righteous, contemptuous woman. She looks down at her nose and is prejudice in the ways she accuses Colby of being. When she describes him, she is cruel and I have no idea why she is with him except that she took from him moral support when she lost her father. She shut him down and out through her second rough time. Even in the details she gives about Colby, she mocks him for his preference in car color and other superficial things. Although Dallis doesn't want to be judged about her career or modest income, Judgey McJudgerpants throws out her (cruel) opinions on everyone around.I have no idea how Dallis has friends, or why anyone would be drawn to her. Her blinking silence when her friend told her she put an office together for her and decorated it (she justified she didn't have to say a thing because she knew it was coming). She even tears apart Grayson in the first seconds of meeting him by saying his tattoos were a "turn off" and apparently Ada's is the only restaurant in all of Seattle who would hire him (because he has...gasp...tattoos on his arms!). Gah! She is snide, snippy, and demanding. Twice she comes home to her and Colby's townhouse with a simple "what's for dinner," and never a thank you. She expects Colby to feed her, but she doesn't want his dastardly money because she is "independent."  She belittles Greg's fiancé and snips that what she is wearing "made me cringe." It was comical when she snapped at Kelsey for innocently saying her name incorrectly by retorting "that's Dallis, like the city..." Well actually, that would be Dallas then. Kelsey apparently made the grave mistake of being younger and terribly happy...fresh kill for the judgement vulture.I couldn't read any further past the beginning of the Ada's scene. Dallis does not deserve a good guy, and is simply a hot mess. I am not sure exactly what happens, but I think Colby should dump the cold demanding fish and swim on to smoother waters. If he isn't cheating on her already, kudos to him for putting up with one commitment phobic (who will only marry on her terms when she is ready), self centered, ungiving woman.Sorry for the negative review, but it is a bummer to buy a book and only be able to read 1/5 of it. I gave the book 1 extra star because it was my bad not catching who the author was before purchasing. Although Red Flags was entertaining, I did not enjoy the follow up. Her writing style and characters are apparently just not the right fit for me.