Review: I don't get it
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2012
This book kept popping up in the recommendations for me so I broke down and read it, but I should not have. The story about Lee, a city girl sent to Texas by her parents to calm down before college, and Xander a Texas country boy, should have and could have been a really sweet love story between two polar opposites. Instead, this was a story about just straight sex...young sex when Xander and Lee first met when they were 18, then older early 30s sex. While the sex was hot, and dare I say, a little too kinky for my taste, there wasn't a very good story or very good character development to go with it. As characters, I have no idea what happened to Xander and Lee. It was as if age turned them into completly differnt people. And while I must admit that age does mature and change us in some ways, I think at our core we are really the same people. In the flashback part of the book Xander seemed like a normal young man, growing up poor, no parents, and with a burgeoning dominant streak. When we meet him again, in his 30s he doesn't seem like the same person. It is clear that he now has more money, and has an appreciation for art and high end stores like Barneys, but now he comes off as too eager to please at times, but then too forceful at others. Lee on the other hand, went from a peppy, smart alecky (sp) young woman, to a weak 30 year old woman who wouldn't even tell Xander about nearly being sexually assaulted by his friend. I just couldn't find anything in these characters to identify with or to root for. Then the book ended on an odd note...it just stopped. All in all, not alot of this story worked for me, so, A+ for the hot sex, and a D for everything else.