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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
I did enjoy this and I would give this a higher rating if it wasn't for a few things:
A) The timeline is a bit wonky. Kim is away for 3 months, so Lily will be with Deacon thru the first week of September, but Kim is back before the end of the summer. Mal arrives one day (sometime in July, presumably early or mid-) and then pretty much the next chapter, it's three weeks later. And then another few weeks happen and Pam's out of her cast, and my best guess for the date is sometime in mid-August. And meanwhile, Deacon gets a letter before Mal arrives with the offer to buy the Wisteria and another shortly after saying they want to buy in 3 weeks time, but since Pam busted up her foot, spent 6 weeks in a cast and the deal still hasn't happened, I don't know why the '3 weeks' was thrown in there, as it just muddled up the timeline even more. And at one point it's mentioned that Mal left Stephen 2 months ago, though I don't know if that was just given as a rough estimate of time. But, seeing as the passage of time happens off page, and all the random mentions of weeks, you don't really get a good grasp of how much time has passed.
B) I couldn't pin down Lily's age for a while, because even though the math puts her around 9, she sometimes speaks as though she was 4 or 5.
C) Sometimes in the narration, the reader is addressed, and I hate that. But even worse is that is isn't done very consistently. It happens with more frequency at the beginning of the book, but kind of tapers off as the story progresses.
D) I feel like there was some drama hinted at with Em (and on a lesser note, Connor) that wasn't fully addressed. I assume that that was left that way so as to make a series out of this, especially since there are 3 other gay men who have yet to receive their HEA, but since there is no mention of a series, I'm not thrilled about the hints dropped about Em having some kind of personal issue going on and it not being addressed. And I don't feel like Connor and Deacon really patched things up, either... which is understandable on Connor's part.
E) Deacon's whole reasoning for being closeted was a bit annoying. And not knowing if his ex-wife was homophobic, even after being with her for 5-ish years and having two gay brothers just seems a bit obtuse.
A) The timeline is a bit wonky. Kim is away for 3 months, so Lily will be with Deacon thru the first week of September, but Kim is back before the end of the summer. Mal arrives one day (sometime in July, presumably early or mid-) and then pretty much the next chapter, it's three weeks later. And then another few weeks happen and Pam's out of her cast, and my best guess for the date is sometime in mid-August. And meanwhile, Deacon gets a letter before Mal arrives with the offer to buy the Wisteria and another shortly after saying they want to buy in 3 weeks time, but since Pam busted up her foot, spent 6 weeks in a cast and the deal still hasn't happened, I don't know why the '3 weeks' was thrown in there, as it just muddled up the timeline even more. And at one point it's mentioned that Mal left Stephen 2 months ago, though I don't know if that was just given as a rough estimate of time. But, seeing as the passage of time happens off page, and all the random mentions of weeks, you don't really get a good grasp of how much time has passed.
B) I couldn't pin down Lily's age for a while, because even though the math puts her around 9, she sometimes speaks as though she was 4 or 5.
C) Sometimes in the narration, the reader is addressed, and I hate that. But even worse is that is isn't done very consistently. It happens with more frequency at the beginning of the book, but kind of tapers off as the story progresses.
D) I feel like there was some drama hinted at with Em (and on a lesser note, Connor) that wasn't fully addressed. I assume that that was left that way so as to make a series out of this, especially since there are 3 other gay men who have yet to receive their HEA, but since there is no mention of a series, I'm not thrilled about the hints dropped about Em having some kind of personal issue going on and it not being addressed. And I don't feel like Connor and Deacon really patched things up, either... which is understandable on Connor's part.
E) Deacon's whole reasoning for being closeted was a bit annoying. And not knowing if his ex-wife was homophobic, even after being with her for 5-ish years and having two gay brothers just seems a bit obtuse.
Oh man. I really enjoyed this one. So freaking adorable. I even felt a bit gooey at the end.