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A review by suzyq436
Strictly Business by Ruth Cardello, Ruth Cardello
2.0
This was not great.
The romance? Very insta-love. They met and couldn't keep their hands off each other after that. The worst was their PDA and how cringe it was. It wasn't, "Awww they're cute." It was more of so inappropriate that it felt off and made everybody, including the reader, feel uncomfortable.
Jesse as a character was not fleshed out at all. We are told about his harsh demeanour and how he is the opposite of Scott but we never see it! So pray tell, how are we supposed to react when he acts all sweet and gentle with Crystal when we don't see any other side to him throughout the story?
The plotline? What? The concept is interesting but the execution was a hot mess in the sense that there wasn't one. What on earth was the result of all of it? That last scene where everyone was together made no sense. I still don't know how they're going to manage the farm hereon out.
The brothers hardly ever talk to each other. I think they only spoke twice, once in the beginning and again at the end. Huh? Why is this story relying on side characters to deliver messages between the two brothers? Also, did they find out about each other in another book? Because good golly, the info dumping in the beginning lacked quite a bit of finesse.
The suspense? Non-existent. It was all done via rose coloured tinted glasses very Hallmark-like.
The romance? Very insta-love. They met and couldn't keep their hands off each other after that. The worst was their PDA and how cringe it was. It wasn't, "Awww they're cute." It was more of so inappropriate that it felt off and made everybody, including the reader, feel uncomfortable.
Jesse as a character was not fleshed out at all. We are told about his harsh demeanour and how he is the opposite of Scott but we never see it! So pray tell, how are we supposed to react when he acts all sweet and gentle with Crystal when we don't see any other side to him throughout the story?
The plotline? What? The concept is interesting but the execution was a hot mess in the sense that there wasn't one. What on earth was the result of all of it? That last scene where everyone was together made no sense. I still don't know how they're going to manage the farm hereon out.
The brothers hardly ever talk to each other. I think they only spoke twice, once in the beginning and again at the end. Huh? Why is this story relying on side characters to deliver messages between the two brothers? Also, did they find out about each other in another book? Because good golly, the info dumping in the beginning lacked quite a bit of finesse.
The suspense? Non-existent. It was all done via rose coloured tinted glasses very Hallmark-like.