Review: Liked it much better after the second read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2010
REVIEW CONTAINS VAGUE SPOILERSI enjoyed this book much better after I reread it two months after first read. For some reason I felt a strong Insta!Love vibe from Austin about Jeff when I first read it and when I reread it, I realized that no, it is not nearly as strong as I thought and moreover, when Austin first sees Jeff he actually DISlikes him and the change from dislike to opposite feeling is actually rather gradual within timeconstraints of the story. And even more amusing was the fact that actually Jeff seems to be drawn to Austin initially with much more force than Austin is to him. Granted Jeff is resisting this pull with all his might, but I was amused how I got the initial dynamics wrong after I read it.Did I like that disgusting scene which Jeff created? Heck, no, but in this book it seems plausible and believable both why Jeff did it, what he was trying to "prove" to Austin and why Austin would forgive him so fast.I LOVE this writer's books and I love, love that he does flawed characters so well, but in some books he wrote I was left wondering why the wronged character would forgive so easily. Not so in this one, it all made sense to me :)I also did not mind that mystery was the secondary storyline in this one and relationship development was more visible, even though I think he usually does great mysteries, but this one was a nice diversion.