Review: Unrealistic and utterly annoying!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
As short as this is, I had to do a lot of skimming for it got to be just like the first series, where pages of reminiscing of the past was done. Which I really did not mind in the first book, it needed it to bring us to what and where they are. The transitioning wasn't even done smoothly, I catch myself having to go back and re-read to figure out when the 'then and now" ended and begun. But that's not really what grated on me. The heroine, Katie, was portrayed to look so cheap, from being a young, naive, sweet and innocent 18 yr.old to now 25 yr.old, ( 7 years later from the last time they were together ) an accomplished beautiful young woman with a masters degree, still naive but is so incredibly low self esteemed and downright stupid! How many times would she have to be humiliated and degraded to wake up and take charge? Another very annoying that didn't make sense at all, is the complete turn around of the hero's character, Brandon. From being so loving, gentle and very decent man to a complete jerk and an a**hole! What he's done to Katie and what she's allowed him to do to her repeatedly is disgusting!When you read this, you'll know what I mean. Brandon and Katie's age gap is 17 yrs apart, and boy, did he take advantage of that by being manipulative and calling all the shots.I hated the fact that I looked so forward to this book so much, only to find it had no characters substance. I know this is just fiction, and as we all know very well that all will be well in the end and will have an HEA. Having said that, I'm not quite as taken as I was in the first series, which was a wonderful read with a cliffhanger that took my breath away. In this 2nd series, Katie was demeaned in a most cruelest, degrading way any man can treat a woman, and she let Brandon do it, repeatedly. No self respecting woman would allow herself to be shamed, humiliated and reduced to less than dirt the way Brandon had treated her. Again, I'm reminding my own self this is just pure fiction, but still, can't help being somewhat bothered and annoyed.