Review: Only Because of My Love for Trip & Layla
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2013
I don't know what to say. I waited months for this book, gave explicit instructions to my daughters that once the book went live, I would not be available to talk and dove into it the minute I was able to download it. And........I just wanted to cry. Ok, sounds weird but I really am one of those people that gets so involved in a book I have to snap back to reality once I'm done. This is, by far, my favorite series/love story. RW1 and RW2 made me fall so deeply in love with both Trip and Layla, I felt like they were my friends. This book made me feel like I didn't know them at all. I realized they were older and their lives had changed and life experiences can change you, but this much? They felt like different people and not in a good way. I wished there hadn't been so many years between their reunion and that they hadn't been brought together by a death that Trip wasn't even trying to figure out how to deal with except by being angry all the time. I wished Layla had gone after him and fought for him or that he'd stayed in New York and fought for her, something different than the way this book went. Truthfully, once she left to go home after her time with him in LA, I kind of thought it would be best if they just went their separate ways, like maybe the odds were stacked too high against them. So much fighting and then........SEX. Sorry to say, not very hot. If felt like I was reading a watered down version of 50 Shades Freed since Anna & Christian fought constantly in that book and had tons of "make-up sex" but no real conversations. Neither Trip or Layla seemed to trust each other or the love that had forged itself back in high school.  Maybe the book should have been 24 hours of conversation where they hashed out everything rather that a month of arguing and sex and arguing and sex, etc.....This is review is very hard for me because of my love for the series.  I actually had to go back and re-read RW1 just to remember why I wanted Trip and Layla to be together in the first place. I still love the characters which is why I gave the book 3 stars but I just didn't love this book.