Review: Should have been better...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2013
The premise of this story was a good one, but it wasn't well-executed. I liked India and Andre, both individually and as a couple; however, I could never get a feel for why they were in love. Andre's tormenting of India in high school grew out of his attraction to her, but they weren't friends and never really interacted, so how was he in love with her after all these years? Infatuated with, maybe, but love? It would have been nice if we had seen the relationship grow and develop between these two.  In addition, we meet Mariah (the baby mama) when she calls to tell Andre that she can't keep Haile because she is going out of town; this is a dilemma for him, because he has a conference that he must attend in order to get his Master's or some such and needs someone to keep Haile. I thought that India would end up keeping Haile for him, thereby developing a relationship between the two, but sadly, we never learn how this is resolved and the matter is never brought up again. In fact, we never see much interaction between India and Haile.  There are several scenes where we see Andre and India, but no mention is made of where Haile is (for example, when they have dinner with Andre's mom). Oversights like this just frustrated me.I would be remiss if I didn't mention my biggest pet-peeve of all: poor editing. It's getting hard these days to review a book without pointing out the over-abundance of grammatical errors.  Do better, authors!This is not a bad book, and I will most likely be reading the other books in the trilogy. This author has a lot of potential; I just want her to take her time with the next book and not sell us short on the story.