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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
I reserve the right to go back and up my rating of this book if regular readers of romance can sell me on it, but in all honesty, I was only reading this because it was on Kindle First and I was willfully trying to get out of my comfort zone. Here's what I thought in a vacuum:
The whole letter-discovery thing has been done, and done better than this. Ditto WWII love tales. The story elements and character emotions vacillated between brilliant/touching and contrived/over-the-top. The generational and gender roles were sufficiently traditional that I found myself wondering if the demographic reading this novel would skew toward watchers of Fox News.
And despite this, I finished it, let my heartstrings get played with, and would probably watch the Lifetime movie that seems destined to get made out of this book, provided I was on a date of some kind. So you should probably ignore the insults of this grumpy old man and read it if you're into this sort of things--it's getting great traction on Amazon.
The whole letter-discovery thing has been done, and done better than this. Ditto WWII love tales. The story elements and character emotions vacillated between brilliant/touching and contrived/over-the-top. The generational and gender roles were sufficiently traditional that I found myself wondering if the demographic reading this novel would skew toward watchers of Fox News.
And despite this, I finished it, let my heartstrings get played with, and would probably watch the Lifetime movie that seems destined to get made out of this book, provided I was on a date of some kind. So you should probably ignore the insults of this grumpy old man and read it if you're into this sort of things--it's getting great traction on Amazon.
1.5 stars.
Every romance trope appears - a Mary Sue protagonist, ashamed of her divorce, WWII vet, letters found in an old house, long lost love, blah blah blah. Not a fan of the author’s style, either.
To me, this felt like a Good Christian Romance - nothing graphic, traditional gender roles, everything works out in the end.
Every romance trope appears - a Mary Sue protagonist, ashamed of her divorce, WWII vet, letters found in an old house, long lost love, blah blah blah. Not a fan of the author’s style, either.
To me, this felt like a Good Christian Romance - nothing graphic, traditional gender roles, everything works out in the end.
BORING! I stopped at 11% through the book. It seemed so predictable and the writing is at a third grade level.
This book had me in tears. It's amazing how your own personal history can influence how you take in a story. This is a lovely book that I'm so glad I got to read.
Overall a good freebie. Will was a bit unlikable, but I was able to get past that and enjoy the story.
The characters in this book are not unique or compelling. This is a bland, cookie cutter, paint-by-number romance.
Good little Hallmark movie in a book lol- but my grandparents recommended so… if they ask, 5 stars!
very good story. Love -story mixed with a little hidden past inside the letters found in an old house.
I teach high school writing, and it reminded me of grading fictional short stories. Which is what it should have stayed. An A for my high schooler, merely passing for a published work. Bravo for creating important and not-too-cliched elderly characters, but the romance scenes were painfully PG.