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A review by buttonsbeadslace
Draw One in the Dark by Sarah A. Hoyt
4.0
This is another of the books that I got on sale from Amazon. I read this on and off on my iPod for several months, and I'm very glad I decided to go back to it and finish it.
The main thing that made me consider giving up on this book was the number of comments about various characters' exotic attractiveness.
What kept me reading was the handling of Tom's relationship with his father, Edward. I'm glad Kyrie sees through Edward right away, and I'm very glad he doesn't get to totally redeem himself. He makes good progress during the book, but most of it happens because he realizes Tom might be able to be a Good Respectable Son for him after all, not because he actually values Tom as a person. You can't go from the kind of person who has considered his son hopelessly troublesome and disobedient since the kid first learned to speak, to a decent father, overnight. Kyrie's reaction has a dash too much "the poor kid just needs to be seen" for me, but I'm certainly glad she doesn't swallow the idea that there's something wrong with Tom.
The ending is incredibly sweet, and I like that it subverts a lot of romance-novel-derived expectations. The guy with the incredible sexy magnetism is a bit of an asshole, and mostly the main character just doesn't like him. When she does end up in a relationship, they both recognize that they know nothing about relationships, and they agree to take it very slow- slow enough that they aren't going to do anything but kiss for the foreseeable future.
The main thing that made me consider giving up on this book was the number of comments about various characters' exotic attractiveness.
What kept me reading was the handling of Tom's relationship with his father, Edward. I'm glad Kyrie sees through Edward right away, and I'm very glad he doesn't get to totally redeem himself. He makes good progress during the book, but most of it happens because he realizes Tom might be able to be a Good Respectable Son for him after all, not because he actually values Tom as a person. You can't go from the kind of person who has considered his son hopelessly troublesome and disobedient since the kid first learned to speak, to a decent father, overnight. Kyrie's reaction has a dash too much "the poor kid just needs to be seen" for me, but I'm certainly glad she doesn't swallow the idea that there's something wrong with Tom.
The ending is incredibly sweet, and I like that it subverts a lot of romance-novel-derived expectations. The guy with the incredible sexy magnetism is a bit of an asshole, and mostly the main character just doesn't like him. When she does end up in a relationship, they both recognize that they know nothing about relationships, and they agree to take it very slow- slow enough that they aren't going to do anything but kiss for the foreseeable future.