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A series where classic children's books are retold under the Harlequin Blaze model. Let's see how they did...
The Cowboy Who Never Grew Up by Kimberly Raye
Rating: 1 star
By about the 1/4 mark I wanted to put this book away permanently. The whole Peter Pan theme was overdone. WAY over the top. It was cute all for about 2 pages, then I was just like enough already.
Then there's the absolutely award winning lines... like the one when Wendy walks into Pete's bathroom while he's taking a shower, and it's written 'She should say something. He was naked for heaven's sake.' Well, no shit Sherlock... He's in the fucking shower. Did you think he'd be wearing a tux? Formal Wear? His cowboy duds? And who walks in on a perfect stranger when she KNOWS he's in the shower? This story is moronic.
Then there's the end... It's almost as if the author realized that she only had 500 words left to wrap things up and bam, we go from things still so completely and utterly up in the air it would need another 100 pages to finish the story to 2-3 pages later the story is over... WTF?
Hooked by Julie Leto
Rating: 3 stars
Can't say that I like this story any better than the first one. Allie is stalker-ish crazy. There is a way to chase after someone, then there's stalker. Allie is firmly in the latter category.
Further into the Allie character is a lot of incongruencies. The most glaring is that she didn't have the grades to be cheer captain, yet she got early admission to college AND graduated early? Say what? Sorry honey, that don't jive.
Another startling point comes when we find out how old she was when she got pregnant: 17... Then we do a little math, since it was said multiple times they had been dating for more than 4 years. And the math says... She was 12 or 13 when they started (taking into account birthdays it could be either)? My God, WTF? If I had a kid there's no way in hell they'd be dating at that age.
And further, for someone who has been to the house so many times before as a kid, that James's uncle treated her like family, and that James hadn't renovated the house, how on earth didn't she know exactly where the bathroom was? It's details like this that bug the shit out of me.
The Cowboy Who Never Grew Up by Kimberly Raye
Rating: 1 star
By about the 1/4 mark I wanted to put this book away permanently. The whole Peter Pan theme was overdone. WAY over the top. It was cute all for about 2 pages, then I was just like enough already.
Then there's the absolutely award winning lines... like the one when Wendy walks into Pete's bathroom while he's taking a shower, and it's written 'She should say something. He was naked for heaven's sake.' Well, no shit Sherlock... He's in the fucking shower. Did you think he'd be wearing a tux? Formal Wear? His cowboy duds? And who walks in on a perfect stranger when she KNOWS he's in the shower? This story is moronic.
Then there's the end... It's almost as if the author realized that she only had 500 words left to wrap things up and bam, we go from things still so completely and utterly up in the air it would need another 100 pages to finish the story to 2-3 pages later the story is over... WTF?
Hooked by Julie Leto
Rating: 3 stars
Can't say that I like this story any better than the first one. Allie is stalker-ish crazy. There is a way to chase after someone, then there's stalker. Allie is firmly in the latter category.
Further into the Allie character is a lot of incongruencies. The most glaring is that she didn't have the grades to be cheer captain, yet she got early admission to college AND graduated early? Say what? Sorry honey, that don't jive.
Another startling point comes when we find out how old she was when she got pregnant: 17... Then we do a little math, since it was said multiple times they had been dating for more than 4 years. And the math says... She was 12 or 13 when they started (taking into account birthdays it could be either)? My God, WTF? If I had a kid there's no way in hell they'd be dating at that age.
And further, for someone who has been to the house so many times before as a kid, that James's uncle treated her like family, and that James hadn't renovated the house, how on earth didn't she know exactly where the bathroom was? It's details like this that bug the shit out of me.
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