Review: A light and refreshing read.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2013
This book was refreshing in certain ways and less so in others. First, I loved--absolutely LOVED--the fact that Blake was a younger guy and he was sooo freaking certain that he wanted Kirin. I love the aesthetic of a younger guy and an older woman. You rarely ever see that. In this, B. DeLeo has succeeded.However, that being said, I didn't like the way we kept getting beaten over the head with her age. It was a little irritating. We get it, hon. You're older. I was fine with her age after its initial reveal. Totally. Some readers may not be. In this genre, readers are used to the Younger Woman/Older Man thing. Or maybe they're just used to having a Leading Lady who's in her late 20s. So it was ONLY the fact that it kept coming up that was problematic for me.I'm just going to put this out there: my aunt is 34 and I kept having visions of her in Kirin's place and THAT'S NOT OKAY. I mean, I know the author can't help my retard complex but I'm just saying, that's what happened.Also, I felt like she maybe needed a gay best friend to vent to or something. Any woman that's doing that much venting to her love interest should probably re-think a lot of things. Because self-deprecation gets old fast. The best thing, I think, is that Blake gives her a good talking to about it and I think that's what a good love interest does for his or her other half.Other aspects of the book were better. I liked that Kirin stayed true to herself at the end of the book with all the revelations ABOUT herself that she went through. I love strong MCs and the fact that she grew into herself by the end of the book was absolutely fabulous for me to experience with her.