Review: Not A Chance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2013
I think this is a very interesting first novel involving contemporary star-crossed lovers "worlds apart" from each other.  Arden is a rich and spoiled "engaged to be married" beauty, and Travis is a down-home and hard-working mechanic and "playa".  The circuitous route ultimately finds them together, which itself is astonishing, because the story begins with the couple together stranded in an abandoned home during a snowstorm.  It was interesting to see which of these protagonists was to be the first to "bend," and when I expected a definitive clarification of character, I really didn't get it.  Why, exactly, had these people fallen in love?  What does the author really want to tell me about these oppositional people?  It was hard for me to understand how someone could go from abstaining from sex to having sex, with no explanation for the reversal of attitude or behavior.  In any case, it was an interesting read, even though I was not as satisfied as the characters in the end.