Review: A good slice of life
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
**Review written for an originally posted on my blog, Book Bliss. I received a copy of the book in exchange for an unbiased and honest review**Review: 3 starsGeneral: The book does a wonderful job of drawing you in. The beginning is so powerful and gives you an immediacy to feel for Eve, a little for Jake but more for her. As the novel goes it experiences a lot of changing back and forth in tempo and pace that made it a little harder to fully immerse into. I felt the book had a wonderful sense of realism with strong characters and an easy emotional pull. Every single scene was so charged and so easy to fall into it worked wonderfully together, but there were things that pulled me out in some instances.I didn’t feel much of the urgency or the desire to want more from Jake and Eve as the story went. It was very slice of life and while very well written, seemed to lack a real strong push in the plot aside from Jake simply wanting another chance.Character: Eve- Eve is a great leading lady. Her emotions are intense and very reliable for that of a real woman. She was scorned horribly by Jake and yet everything she allowed to occur in the present wasn’t frustrating, it was rather beautiful and understandable.Jake- Jake is one of those hate to love them characters. He makes an almost unforgivable move in the book’s beginning. The rest of the book is spent with him repenting and us only getting glimpses of who he was versus who he is. I fell in love with him and his plight as the book went and would love to see his continued growth and change.