Since the synopsis is presented above, I'll jump right into the my review.
I would've only given this book 1.5 stars instead of two. I was so very disappointed in this text for so many reasons. Let me highlight a few.
The sentences were awkward and some were not even sentences, but fragments. There were subject verb agreement problems. There were words left out sentences. And there were also punction errors. Now, some of this could be the fault of the editor. All of these grammatical errors made reading this book very difficult. My reading parnter did not even finish it.
Now, if the story would have been stronger, maybe it would have held her interest. And I may have finished it sooner. The story was just so what. The teaser was much better than the book. Sort of like seeing all the best parts of the movie from the previews. The crux of the story is that Ashley Bennett comes back to town and hooks up with her old childhood friend, Christopher Morgan. Both have had crushes on each other in high school but never knew. Ok, I'm cool with. But the only problem is that when physical therapy is over and she bolts when he asks her to stay. And then he gets mad and doesn't call her for some unknown amount of time.
And time leads me to my next issue. I could not get a good sense of it. The author does not give the reader clues nor markers as to how much time has passed. When they have an argument, is it for a day, a week, an hour? Just went back and reread the section and still could not figure it out. This is all through the book.
Some other issues. There seems to be quite a bit of point of view shifts. Reader was given a very detailed discription in the early part of the text with Ashley walking around her home and just a few sentences on Chris and his journey home. Why? On page 4, Ashley has a crush on Chris. On page 9, she's in love with him. Big jump. Why did Ashley think she would not see Chris now that she's back in town? The manner in which this is written, the reader would think Chris moved arcoss the big state of Texas, some place close. I can't state how far, because the writer did not supply that information. On page 12, a boyfriend from Ashley's past is mentioned, Warren. He was only given that one mention. Who cares? If the author is not going to give us more, then he's not needed at all. "Over the edge," was used five times on pages 75-76. There are more words for this. Let's list five quickly-climax, come, s/he exploded with pleasure, orgasm, fired away.
And in the epilouge, why do we need a discriptions about the twin daughters having differences? Who does not know they are different? The author repeats how good a husband Chris is a couple of times on the same page. Why does Ashley need to sit on the bed after putting the girls to bed? Is it really like that? She needs silence? She needs to catch her breath from putting down two 6 month olds? It could be, but the author did not give me enough detail to accept this.
Two areas I think stood out was the short discription of the Ashley's family when they meet for dinner. I also liked the on page 98, "It was a miralce that her spine didn't snap in two at the onslaught of pleasure."
I'll not give up on this author. I've other books listed on my to read list by her. I'm really hoping many of the problems present in this text are not present in others.
I would've only given this book 1.5 stars instead of two. I was so very disappointed in this text for so many reasons. Let me highlight a few.
The sentences were awkward and some were not even sentences, but fragments. There were subject verb agreement problems. There were words left out sentences. And there were also punction errors. Now, some of this could be the fault of the editor. All of these grammatical errors made reading this book very difficult. My reading parnter did not even finish it.
Now, if the story would have been stronger, maybe it would have held her interest. And I may have finished it sooner. The story was just so what. The teaser was much better than the book. Sort of like seeing all the best parts of the movie from the previews. The crux of the story is that Ashley Bennett comes back to town and hooks up with her old childhood friend, Christopher Morgan. Both have had crushes on each other in high school but never knew. Ok, I'm cool with. But the only problem is that when physical therapy is over and she bolts when he asks her to stay. And then he gets mad and doesn't call her for some unknown amount of time.
And time leads me to my next issue. I could not get a good sense of it. The author does not give the reader clues nor markers as to how much time has passed. When they have an argument, is it for a day, a week, an hour? Just went back and reread the section and still could not figure it out. This is all through the book.
Some other issues. There seems to be quite a bit of point of view shifts. Reader was given a very detailed discription in the early part of the text with Ashley walking around her home and just a few sentences on Chris and his journey home. Why? On page 4, Ashley has a crush on Chris. On page 9, she's in love with him. Big jump. Why did Ashley think she would not see Chris now that she's back in town? The manner in which this is written, the reader would think Chris moved arcoss the big state of Texas, some place close. I can't state how far, because the writer did not supply that information. On page 12, a boyfriend from Ashley's past is mentioned, Warren. He was only given that one mention. Who cares? If the author is not going to give us more, then he's not needed at all. "Over the edge," was used five times on pages 75-76. There are more words for this. Let's list five quickly-climax, come, s/he exploded with pleasure, orgasm, fired away.
And in the epilouge, why do we need a discriptions about the twin daughters having differences? Who does not know they are different? The author repeats how good a husband Chris is a couple of times on the same page. Why does Ashley need to sit on the bed after putting the girls to bed? Is it really like that? She needs silence? She needs to catch her breath from putting down two 6 month olds? It could be, but the author did not give me enough detail to accept this.
Two areas I think stood out was the short discription of the Ashley's family when they meet for dinner. I also liked the on page 98, "It was a miralce that her spine didn't snap in two at the onslaught of pleasure."
I'll not give up on this author. I've other books listed on my to read list by her. I'm really hoping many of the problems present in this text are not present in others.
