Review: I'm sure it is just me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2014
This book starts off pretty good and I liked the idea of the storyline.  Girl runs off to New York and meets guy in a warehouse playing a soulful sax.  I can deal with that.  However, it seemed to quickly go downhill for me.  He is young, a pickle maker and with a fairly good pickle making business.  He owns the warehouse and has several employees, owns his own brownstone, seems to be doing quite well.  She is an artist, certainly down on her luck but doesn't seem aware of that fact.  She is a bicycle delivery person and she delivers a package to his company.  Finding a set of keys on her way out she plans to return them later that day after she finishes work.She is staying at a local Y.  This particular Y had rats, lice, bedbugs and some pretty low class women staying there so she takes off figuring she would be better on the streets.  I had to agree.  I'm not sure who this sounds the worse for, the Y or New York City but it definitely makes your skin crawl.So she winds up using the keys and staying in his warehouse for the night.  Now we get to the hero.  His parents, a step down from the Beverly Hill Billys, stop over to stay with him parking their RV on the street in front of his house.  I have a feeling it is not one of the $40,000 jobs.  His mother is a loud mouth, over bearing, manipulative, pushy mother.  The dad just stands by smiling and staying out of her way.  The hero seems to be something of an introvert with no balls as he is totally unable to tell his mother to get in her RV and drive on.So, he escapes every night to the warehouse to be with Raven, the heroine and artist. As she tells him her life story, she was in foster care, mother is in prison and I am assuming here but never knew her dad or he is dead, so she sleeps her way through the foster dads for favors.  In school she tends to sleep  her way through the boys that can help her with her grades, from that point  on she is willing to sleep with anyone she needs to "barter" with.  We don't call this girl a whore or slut, she is a free spirit with dreams of hitting it big in the art world.  Just had a few back knocks to get beyond.  FOR ME, and only me as just about everyone else that reviewed the book gave it 5 stars, it was a downer and I was wanting to tell the hero to grow a pair and the girl to go wash up.  She just made me feel dirty.  I'm sure they are part of the life in the big cities, I just don't care to read about it or experience it through the books I am reading.  I quit reading.  I really just couldn't take any more.Please don't be offended by this review.  I am only giving the opinion of how the book hit me.  It obviously pleased a lot of other people and there was a story to be told, etc.  It just did not appeal to me.