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marie_thereadingotter's review against another edition
2.0
Review:
1.5 stars
I received this book from NetGalley for review.
This book was a little strange in many ways. There are a lot of plot lines going on that don't match up and come across as a soap-opera.
Ally just got out of a really bad break-up after walking in on her boyfriend in bed with her best friend and roommate. The first page she claims she loved him and not even 10 pages later she claims that she is unable to love. It felt like two different stories were smashed together to make up this book.
Ally has issues with her family as well. Her mother ran off when she was young and her father just remarried a girl younger than Ally.
Jack is just so cliche it's painful. Manwhore, happy that way. Has a crazy ex that he still feels responsible for even though he keeps saying he doesn't care about her at all, he still runs to her aid whenever she calls instead of either ignoring her or calling the cops to pick her up. The thing about him that makes the least amount of sense is for most of the book he says he's happy sleeping around and doesn't want another relationship, and yet he seems to be trying to convince Ally to give him a chance at a relationship and gets mad at her when she says that he as to commit to her or he doesn't have a chance at all, or when she tried to shield herself from him and told him she only wanted to sleep with him.
There are so many things wrong with this book.The pregnant drug addict ex-wife being the main thing. If she is an addict she would no way in hell get custody of a child.
I could barely finish this book, I just started skimming and skipping parts. This book was boring and cliche.
1.5 stars
I received this book from NetGalley for review.
This book was a little strange in many ways. There are a lot of plot lines going on that don't match up and come across as a soap-opera.
Ally just got out of a really bad break-up after walking in on her boyfriend in bed with her best friend and roommate. The first page she claims she loved him and not even 10 pages later she claims that she is unable to love. It felt like two different stories were smashed together to make up this book.
Ally has issues with her family as well. Her mother ran off when she was young and her father just remarried a girl younger than Ally.
Jack is just so cliche it's painful. Manwhore, happy that way. Has a crazy ex that he still feels responsible for even though he keeps saying he doesn't care about her at all, he still runs to her aid whenever she calls instead of either ignoring her or calling the cops to pick her up. The thing about him that makes the least amount of sense is for most of the book he says he's happy sleeping around and doesn't want another relationship, and yet he seems to be trying to convince Ally to give him a chance at a relationship and gets mad at her when she says that he as to commit to her or he doesn't have a chance at all, or when she tried to shield herself from him and told him she only wanted to sleep with him.
There are so many things wrong with this book.
I could barely finish this book, I just started skimming and skipping parts. This book was boring and cliche.
anitalouise's review against another edition
3.0
Hmmm. For some reason, parts of this book just didn't work for me. It started off really strong - so strong that I one-clicked before I finished reading the sample. But the timeline and pacing seemed odd to me. There is an incident with Ally's mother at Ally's workplace that results in.... nothing! It comes up later in the book but at the time, I just felt like okaaay so what was that about. And then there's lots about her job at the Reyes Corp but felt like the storyline was sort of lost. I also didn't really get the back and forth with Chelsea what was that business about Jack turning her into a drug addict What did work for me was Jack - yes, he was a manwhore with serious issues but I did like him. I also really liked Ally - she wasn't model thin, she had issues with food (like me!) loads of insecurities and tried to keep control of her life - a real person! As I got closer to the end, I was petrified that this was going to end as a cliffhanger but thankfully it didn't. And surprisingly, I did like the end - it wasn't pretty and didn't all tie up nicely with a bow and that's life - doesn't always end up puppies and rainbows but you deal with what you got... So this is the first in the series but it appears that Jack and Ally's story ends here. I will read others in the series. This is the author's debut and I do like her style. Some of the dialogue was wonderfully written, pithy comments and the sexy times were nicely done and HAWT... I will never look at cheesecake the same way again!
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