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A review by smitch29
Give Me Love by Kate McCarthy
4.0
3.5
I really enjoyed this book. It kept me interested the whole way through. My biggest complaints were in technical details were there were either grammatical mistakes or a few errors in logic for me.
This was about Evie, the hopeful rock goddess, and Jared, the badass mercenary. It basically comes down to a big conflict for each of our main characters to learn to trust each other and themselves. Overall, I liked their tale. I didn't think it was anything overly different, but it was just a slightly different timeline for the love story and its conflicts, that my interest didn't ever really wane.
In the beginning of the novel I really hated how after they had sex the first time and it was unprotected, they were a bit worried about pregnancy, yet they didn't seem to care how much Evie was drinking. That really irked me the whole time it was happening. There were also a few too many typos and grammatical mistakes for my liking. Those are really trivial, I know, but they detract from the story for me, they pull me back to reality, when I'm enjoying spending time in this fantasy story land.
The only other thing I have to mention about the book is the formatting of chapters. I don't know if it was just because I wasn't used to it or what, but Kate McCarthy seems to like to do a flash-back and/or teaser during the chapters a bit too much. Some chapters would start with a snippet of dialogue from the future, and then go backwards. Basically, it was a prologue for the chapter. Other chapters would be days or weeks after the last chapter, but then basically spend the whole chapter revealing what happened since the last chapter ended. Why do the flashback? Why not just make a chapter about the events that happened. Don't get me wrong, I can see that the author was trying to create more interest with teasers, where perhaps there wouldn't have been. And it's not as though it didn't work, but it also happened so frequently that I kept thinking about the tactics she was using more than I was the story. So again it was something else that detracted from the plot.
I really enjoyed this book. It kept me interested the whole way through. My biggest complaints were in technical details were there were either grammatical mistakes or a few errors in logic for me.
This was about Evie, the hopeful rock goddess, and Jared, the badass mercenary. It basically comes down to a big conflict for each of our main characters to learn to trust each other and themselves. Overall, I liked their tale. I didn't think it was anything overly different, but it was just a slightly different timeline for the love story and its conflicts, that my interest didn't ever really wane.
In the beginning of the novel I really hated how after they had sex the first time and it was unprotected, they were a bit worried about pregnancy, yet they didn't seem to care how much Evie was drinking. That really irked me the whole time it was happening. There were also a few too many typos and grammatical mistakes for my liking. Those are really trivial, I know, but they detract from the story for me, they pull me back to reality, when I'm enjoying spending time in this fantasy story land.
The only other thing I have to mention about the book is the formatting of chapters. I don't know if it was just because I wasn't used to it or what, but Kate McCarthy seems to like to do a flash-back and/or teaser during the chapters a bit too much. Some chapters would start with a snippet of dialogue from the future, and then go backwards. Basically, it was a prologue for the chapter. Other chapters would be days or weeks after the last chapter, but then basically spend the whole chapter revealing what happened since the last chapter ended. Why do the flashback? Why not just make a chapter about the events that happened. Don't get me wrong, I can see that the author was trying to create more interest with teasers, where perhaps there wouldn't have been. And it's not as though it didn't work, but it also happened so frequently that I kept thinking about the tactics she was using more than I was the story. So again it was something else that detracted from the plot.