Review: Could have and should have been so much more...disappointed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
*BIG SIGH HERE*...I usually pick books based on either recommendations from friends or great sounding descriptions and this one sounded like my kind of book...until I started reading. Since I like to be fair and give a book a chance, I kept on and skimmed through a few pages here and there to get to the meat of it.The story wasn't bad, it was just the execution of it....at times I felt like I was reading a YA book geared for teens (with the exception of the sexual content). The main players, Blake and Paige were so immature (they acted the same at 28 as they did at 15) and that was frustrating to me, and some of their comments were not age appropriate either. Who stays with someone because they are "hot" looking?? How many 28 year old women call their fathers "daddy" and whine like a little girl? The characters were over-the-top dramatic and while it was getting predictable, I was almost expecting the EX to come back into the picture and say she was knocked up! Thankfully that didn't happen or else this book would have been thrown into "soap opera" zone...LOL!This seemingly serious story (rape, alcoholism) was more of a light romantic read to me with a fair amount of explicit sex thrown in for entertainment. It could have and should have been so much more and that was my problem. I wish I had liked it more than I did but just not enough substance compared to what is available to read.***3*** "damaged and still broken" stars