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A review by jscarpa14
All Lined Up by Cora Carmack
3.0
The first thing I feel the need to mention in the sex scene, more specifically the location of it. It didn't add or detract from the story by being there and with it's placement in the book it honestly read to me like it was added only because wanting this to fall firmly into the new adult category the author felt the book should have one. It felt forced like checking off a box on what a new adult book should require and to be honest I'd have been happier without it. Considering I read everything from erotica to children's book I'm not saying this because I'm some sort of prude, I'm saying it because I feel if a sex scene is included it should in some way add to the plot or relationship between the characters rather than be included as an afterthought.
Carson and Dallas were somewhat interesting characters but considering the fact that I really had nothing in common with either character and therefore nothing I could relate to I felt really distant from these characters as a reader. When you can't get close to the characters enough to care it's hard to dredge up the necessary emotions while journeying with them through life's trials. They seem like nice "people" and all but without some sort of common ground with the people that they were the story wasn't for me like it was for many of the people excited about this series. Even with dual first person points of view I just felt distanced from their story and therefore the emotion required to make this feel like a really great book to me.
That said it's not a bad book either, it's more I guess better for other readers than it was for me.
Carson and Dallas were somewhat interesting characters but considering the fact that I really had nothing in common with either character and therefore nothing I could relate to I felt really distant from these characters as a reader. When you can't get close to the characters enough to care it's hard to dredge up the necessary emotions while journeying with them through life's trials. They seem like nice "people" and all but without some sort of common ground with the people that they were the story wasn't for me like it was for many of the people excited about this series. Even with dual first person points of view I just felt distanced from their story and therefore the emotion required to make this feel like a really great book to me.
That said it's not a bad book either, it's more I guess better for other readers than it was for me.