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maeiive's review
But overall I really enjoyed this book!
whatcha_listening_to's review against another edition
3.0
Helen, Is blind but don’t let that stop you from reading she is brilliant. She is a little insecure about herself but who wouldn’t be when people are not always kind.
She struggles and shut herself off from everyone and everything.
She is presented with the opportunity to see for the first time by 2 very persistent doctors, Own and Liam.
She needs a ride to the city so if they want to do test and try out the medicine on her they need to get her to the city for her sister’s wedding. The car ride was EPIC well until she opens up but then again Owen is the life of the party so to speak and make thing entertaining.
Yes this has a cliff-hanger but still a good fast-ish read too.
jenvile's review
4.0
Liam is... So beautifully childish, hot, and sexy and I don't even know what he looks like. Helen is closed off, but she's not insanely closed off to the world. Owen, oh my gosh you are some hilarious man HAHAHHAHA
This book feels like only half a book, because it's so damn short!! Keeping this review short as well, because I NEED to know what happens next, I NEED the next book.
So far, it's pretty good. But I'm not really sucked in as I would like to be... It's been a pretty good read, and I can't wait to see the outcome and turn of events!
ambers0511's review
2.0
I thought the characters were overall pretty bland. There were some funny moments, especially with Owen, but Helen really bored me.
The plot was, while like nothing I've read before, wasn't something I'd ever really want to revisit. It just wasn't really something I'm super interested in.
The writing was decent, but it didn't suck you in.
I don't have a whole lot to say about this book. It wasn't awful, but I certainly wouldn't say that it is very good, and I would only recommend this to someone who feels like they would really like this book.
snailqueenreads's review
1.0
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Knowing this was a freebie, I could handle the typos and tense mistakes (though the constant moments where it says something along the lines of, "Liam looked my way" drove me NUTS). However, this book really ended up rubbing me the wrong way. The event in the beginning of the book was so horrible that Helen felt she couldn't tell her family and she moved to a different state to be alone. She has obvious trust issues, for good reason. But within a few hours of knowing this doctor, Liam Larson, she is telling him and his friend/colleague all about her rape.Hello?! Does this not seem completely unreasonable? She explains how she only ever talks to her mailman and her voice is barely ever used as she doesn't socialize. She is completely wary of strangers, having been fooled by their kindness before. We see Helen as a victim who has understandably built up some serious defenses around her. So why would she openly agree to spill her deepest, darkest secret to someone, regardless of what they just offered to do for her?
Not only that, but Owen spends the entire car ride explicitly talking about pornography! There isn't one sentence, not even one word to show that Helen is the least bit uncomfortable with this. No, the rape victim in the backseat has no objections whatsoever to this sort of talk. And when she does reveal her secret, the boys bicker back and forth like children over who was the least sensitive. Are you serious? The book just left a bad taste in my mouth after that part.
Helen herself is incredibly hot and cold. Almost every interaction with Liam is either hostile or gentle with no in between and almost no consequence. Liam doesn't seem to react much to her insults and obvious dislike, yet he gushes about being such a big fan. It doesn't read like an interesting dynamic and instead left me confused. I felt no chemistry between them and the set-up of "fake wedding date" had me rolling my eyes.
Besides that, it was incredibly predictable. You see the ending coming from the first phone call. I felt nothing for any of the characters and felt that Helen in particular was incredibly inconsistent. Don't even get me started on her sister. I will not be continuing the series for any reason.
powerlibrarian's review
2.0
FULL DISCLAIMER: I read this book because it was free, I like romance, and my name is Helen. I wasn't impressed with this book. There were quite a few WTF moments. Here are a couple of the ones that had me violently shaking my ereader.
Helen is incredibly suspicious of men (and understandably so), but she takes the fact that Liam is a doctor at face value and gets into the car with him and his sketchy friend. If I were her, I would have called Dr. Howard (their mutual acquaintance) and confirmed that he was who he said he was. Heck, I would probably have done that anyway, and I’m not nearly as much of a recluse/paranoid person as this particular Helen is.
Liam, the eye doctor, actually mansplains to Helen what it's like to be blind. Seriously? This is the love interest?
And WHAT was up with Owen’s obsession with describing every porn movie he’s ever seen, for HOURS, to a woman he’s just met?
I kept reading because I wanted to read a quick book, but it turned out that the storyline isn't even wrapped up in the first instalment.
comicbookchick25's review
4.0