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A review by aotora
As You Wish by Jude Deveraux
3.0
I wanted to like this book.- I really did I promise but … I didn't. I mean I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. It was … okay.
I remember absolutely loving the other book I read from this series years ago so I thought that I would like this one too, but I didn't really care for it.
The characters were all right though Ray seemed like a really interesting character I wanted to learn more about but he gets discarded in favour of his wife Kathy that is just one of the blandest most boring characters ever. I liked Elise and Olivia and their stories but Kathy just seemed to be there as a third person that needed to be there- I didn't care for her, didn't root for her and when she got her happy ending I didn't really care.
My main problem with this book is pacing- I picked this book up because it's about time traveling and it's about going to the past and changing it - and that doesn't happen until half way through the book - first 250 pages are just spent introducing the characters, which would be interesting if didn't get repetitive and boring -
I like Olivia's story and I liked that not all of her story was dumped on us in the first few chapters though- some of it is left for her traveling to the past. And I liked Elise and how you think that she is a spoilt rich kid that has everything but she is far from it- I also loved the resolutions for these two.
I also disliked the fact that these women were absolutely perfect and good and the men in their lives had to change- that was just annoying. But that and a few other minor details and one of the main characters being the blandest most cliche person ever made me struggle to finish this book - but I am glad that I did- I still plan on reading the other one and re-reading the one that I read a few years ago though, just so I can see if I like them.
I remember absolutely loving the other book I read from this series years ago so I thought that I would like this one too, but I didn't really care for it.
The characters were all right though Ray seemed like a really interesting character I wanted to learn more about but he gets discarded in favour of his wife Kathy that is just one of the blandest most boring characters ever. I liked Elise and Olivia and their stories but Kathy just seemed to be there as a third person that needed to be there- I didn't care for her, didn't root for her and when she got her happy ending I didn't really care.
My main problem with this book is pacing- I picked this book up because it's about time traveling and it's about going to the past and changing it - and that doesn't happen until half way through the book - first 250 pages are just spent introducing the characters, which would be interesting if didn't get repetitive and boring -
I like Olivia's story and I liked that not all of her story was dumped on us in the first few chapters though- some of it is left for her traveling to the past. And I liked Elise and how you think that she is a spoilt rich kid that has everything but she is far from it- I also loved the resolutions for these two.
I also disliked the fact that these women were absolutely perfect and good and the men in their lives had to change- that was just annoying. But that and a few other minor details and one of the main characters being the blandest most cliche person ever made me struggle to finish this book - but I am glad that I did- I still plan on reading the other one and re-reading the one that I read a few years ago though, just so I can see if I like them.