Review: Things fall apart...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2012
Okay, so this is a one star read for me but I added an additional star because she did a plug of Marvin's Room [Cover] by Asian singer Dawen and African American singer Sha Sha Jones, which happens to be one of my favorite duo's.Having said that, there were also a lot of inconsistencies and a WTF moment.  Just so you don't think that I am hating on a newer writer I have listed several below.1. Cheng is said to be an Asian 'Golden Boy' because his father is an Ambassador and he the only child. He is obviously well known because  we are told that his last girlfriend had sold a story about him to a tabloid. We are also told that he is very smart and successful in his own right.After a brutal attack, we are told he has to start over financially. Why would taking a medical leave for several months plunge him into near poverty? He is the ONLY child of wealthy parents. This change in status didn't make sense to me.(SPOILER ALERT)******************2. Angela is said to be a mixture of black and something else. Later after we discover shes had Cheng's baby. She tells him, how hard it was raising a child who looks 100% Asian, and how much flack some of the members of her family gave her about having and raising a mixed child. If she is mixed, why wouldn't her family support her. If anyone knows how difficult things can be, it would be her family.REAL TALK:1. It would be very rare for this type of couple to be accepted in the Asian community so I could not buy it when one of the owners of the company encouraged Cheng to marry Angela. Most older(and this person was described as older) Asian males would not encouraging a marriage with a non-Asian woman,  unfortunately, not a black woman and especially when the man is the ONLY male in the family.  Also, encouraging this type of behavior in the workplace is a lawsuit waiting to happen!2. If you want to file a restraining order on someone, you have to do it IN PERSON. There is no such thing as a restraining order by proxy.MY WTF MOMENT IN THE STORY: Angela said she never disagreed with her fiancee because"Something told her to just to go along with it and do whatever he'd wanted if she was going to marry him. How else was she going to marry a doctor or anyone else of his so-called caliber as a single, unwed mother? In this very moment, however, reality was coming crashing back down on her. What had she almost done?"(Direct quote from Lemon Truffles, CeCe Monet)Um, I don't even think I should have to explain how unflattering those lines were to Angela, a heroine who was touted as being smart, hard working and successful.