Review: 2.5 Stars - Weak storyline
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2013
(downloaded as a freebie on Amazon.UK)There was nothing original about this storyline. I feel like I've read it a hundred times before. Girl has secret past, meets a boy, falls instantly in love, withholds the secret only for it to break them up blah, blah, blah.The problem with this book is yes Delaney has a secret past..normally in a book like this, we will get little snippets along the way up to the big reveal near the end but around 20% of this story, when the characters are having a conversation, Delaney's internal thoughts suddenly announce what happened to her! I'm not sure why the author did this, it ruined the build up as from that point on, I knew what had happened to her four years ago. We don't get the full story until she confesses to Cole near the end but even then, the full story had holes in it. Why did the person do what he did? It was weak in my opinion.As for Delaney and Cole. I felt no connection between them at all, no attraction, no chemistry. We don't get to read much of their actual relationship. It's glossed over or fast forwarded in the storyline. Therefore when the part came when the author wanted me to feel something, I felt nothing. The way Cole's sister Grace reacted to Delaney's past seemed ridiculous to me and then of course everything is neatly wrapped up in the epilogue but for me, that part (with Grace) and the part with Delaney's Dad should have been in a chapter near the end and not rushed in the epilogue.I think the author should have taken more time with it and padded it out more plus all the characters needed fleshing out more and we needed more of Delaney and Cole's relationship and to feel their love. The story did have potential, it just fell flat for me.