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mrsbooknerd's review
1.0
How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
Characters? Completely unlikeable . Plot? Not bad hypothetically. Execution of plot? Terrible
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The plot was pretty simple. Girl meets boy. Boy and girl's brother are enemies. Wonderful. That is a standard romance plot, what could possibly go wrong?!
SO MUCHis the answer.
Basically, Palmer over complicated the plot by adding lengthy back stories for every character, far too many supporting characters and by squeezing in two other romances. This did not leave enough time to really develop Kane and Nikki as a couple. They were the supposed linchpin to the novel, yet they were barely even together. When they were together, Nikki had the personality of a wet towel and Kane was either sobbing, sexually aggressive or downright vindictive. I don't know about you ladies, but if I were to advertise for my ideal man the words: Emotionally unstable, sexually aggressive and vindictive wouldn't appear. What happened to GSoH?! What happened to attractiveness and loyalty? Even Clayton was the written the same. Screaming at his assistant one moment and then coming on to her quite aggressively the next.
The scenes which were supposedly about the passion that burned between the couples felt almost sinister and weren't comfortable to read at all.
Absolutely nothing was developed because so much was squeezed in. Three romances and none of them satisfactory. I will never get over the fact that Cortez - a character whose presence could have been eradicated entirely from the novel - met a random girl, in a random restaurant. He then took this girl to investigate a crime, and she went with this stranger. Obviously, she then turns out to be the niece of one of the supporting characters and she comes back into it... YEAH, RIGHT.
Absolutely hated it and I can't believe I actually read the whole book. Book sadism.
Characters? Completely unlikeable . Plot? Not bad hypothetically. Execution of plot? Terrible
.
The plot was pretty simple. Girl meets boy. Boy and girl's brother are enemies. Wonderful. That is a standard romance plot, what could possibly go wrong?!
SO MUCHis the answer.
Basically, Palmer over complicated the plot by adding lengthy back stories for every character, far too many supporting characters and by squeezing in two other romances. This did not leave enough time to really develop Kane and Nikki as a couple. They were the supposed linchpin to the novel, yet they were barely even together. When they were together, Nikki had the personality of a wet towel and Kane was either sobbing, sexually aggressive or downright vindictive. I don't know about you ladies, but if I were to advertise for my ideal man the words: Emotionally unstable, sexually aggressive and vindictive wouldn't appear. What happened to GSoH?! What happened to attractiveness and loyalty? Even Clayton was the written the same. Screaming at his assistant one moment and then coming on to her quite aggressively the next.
The scenes which were supposedly about the passion that burned between the couples felt almost sinister and weren't comfortable to read at all.
Absolutely nothing was developed because so much was squeezed in. Three romances and none of them satisfactory. I will never get over the fact that Cortez - a character whose presence could have been eradicated entirely from the novel - met a random girl, in a random restaurant. He then took this girl to investigate a crime, and she went with this stranger. Obviously, she then turns out to be the niece of one of the supporting characters and she comes back into it... YEAH, RIGHT.
Absolutely hated it and I can't believe I actually read the whole book. Book sadism.
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