Casey reviewed on 8/18/2013 + 154 more book reviews

I really wanted to fall in love with this story. It combines so many elements that I love in a great novel. Past and present. A dynamitic love story, the tumultuous era of speakeasies, the depression and love at first sight. The first chapter hooked me and the premise kept me reading, but I failed to truly fall in love as I thoroughly expected to.

It wasnt that the story wasnt any good or wasnt worth my time in reading. But I think too much of the story was told to me. Too much description tended to fill up sections between dialogue (which did improve towards the middle to end of the book) and the characters were a wee bit flat. With a bit more refining the book would be there, because like I said, it combines many, many facets to create a fantastic story.

But I dont want my review to focus all on the negative, because it certainly isnt a book not worth the reading. Its one of those love stories you watch in a Hallmark movie come to the pages of a novel. Its a story that touches the heart of the hopeless romantic in every reader.

This review is my honest opinion. Thanks to the publishers for my copy to review.

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