Review: Get a free copy from the author
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2013
If you write a review and send it to the author, she will "gift" you with a copy of her next book.  I'm not saying people write positive reviews only to get a free copy of her books, but I was wondering why over 400 people had read this book within 6 weeks of its release.  (In case you're wondering, this isn't sour grapes, I borrowed this book.)  To the substance - Debora Geary has a great voice and I like the world she's built.  Unfortunately, the people are sickly sweet.  *Everyone* is "lovely", they all understand each other perfectly and know intuitively what the others need (cookies, someone to talk to, to be left alone, whatever) without anyone voicing anything.  Even the children.  Especially the children.  In this story in particular, the two main characters are soulmates while exchanging only several sentences, in fact they're rarely together in the whole book.  Since the basis of the story is the journey these characters undergo leading to them becoming a couple, it was a pretty big hole.  Like I said, these books are engaging (I do keep reading them) and they're not supposed to be filled with angst and melodrama, but there's a happy medium.