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From LA With Love
by Cassie Rocca
‘From LA with Love’ is a novel with a lot of ideas… and some of them work better than others. Heaven and David spent a night together that ended in misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Four years later, he pulls her out of the ocean during a terrible storm, and they’re forced to confront each other and figure out how they really feel.
In my opinion, this book was a lot. Meaning that there were so many threads of ideas, tropes, etc. that the plot felt convoluted; however, it still somehow also felt oversimplified? The use of close third person perspective as a narration style proved to be super confusing to me, as the narrative in some places would shift between characters from one sentence to the other. Perhaps this is part of the reason why I didn’t ever feel a connection to either the heroine or the hero, so I didn’t feel invested in their romance.
I do feel that the author has some great ideas, and I think that if they were pared down and channeled into a more cohesive direction, a greater story would result. Sadly, this particular book just didn’t do it for me.
**Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.**
In my opinion, this book was a lot. Meaning that there were so many threads of ideas, tropes, etc. that the plot felt convoluted; however, it still somehow also felt oversimplified? The use of close third person perspective as a narration style proved to be super confusing to me, as the narrative in some places would shift between characters from one sentence to the other. Perhaps this is part of the reason why I didn’t ever feel a connection to either the heroine or the hero, so I didn’t feel invested in their romance.
I do feel that the author has some great ideas, and I think that if they were pared down and channeled into a more cohesive direction, a greater story would result. Sadly, this particular book just didn’t do it for me.
**Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.**