Rebecca

I'm actually a little bamboozled about what I just read. I don't get the point or reasons for it. It meanders and has tech talk and big words to make it sound smart and there's infidelity of the rich guy and all this blah blah blah but I just don't care...it was just so bland and boring. Characters were one dimensional and flat, plot went absolutely no where, it was paper...

Thanks to the publisher and author for this ARC from Amazon First Reads for an honest review.

It was good, my problem stems from the back-and-forth aspect. I’m not a fan of going back in time then forward and hopping this way and that repeatedly and it was happening from 3 different perspectives. The characters were interesting; the story was alright though at times I went “wait where am I? Oh right…”; the writing was good. If it just wasn’t for the repeated character perspective changes and the time shifts goodness my head spun at one point.

It's corny but in a good way. I liked it. The characters weren't bad and the story was linear. Were there parts that moved too quick... Yes. Does it happen in real life...yes but the frequency of it lasting forever is highly unlikely...

I also wasn't really expecting the spice level...granted the cover was unassuming and well it's one reason I'm not fond of cartoonish covers for spicy books...yes they're close together all dreamy but that doesn't tell me dick diddly apart from it's cute...the saying don't judge a book by it's cover...well maybe we should start when it comes to the more spicy romance ones with cute covers.

I think I might have finally grasped what I was thinking about this book. It tries to be too many things at once. I felt like I was being pulled in too many directions. I'd get to one part then get sucked in and forget "oh right this isn't a whole mishmash of stories it's supposed to be one coherent story" which...it wasn't. So many of them could have easily been plucked out of the book itself and been it's own short story. The Great Jew, His mother teaching his daughter, their time in Italy, The flashback with his friends...the thing is those sections went on so LONG they could have been their own things.

The storyline didn't bring much to the characters...it "seemed too" at the end but it felt flat. I didn't care. The descriptions were phenomenal. The dialogue...that was off...that needed some work. Some of the characters felt...bleh. I don't remember his love interest or why he cared, I forgot half the time there even WAS a love interest. There were moments it shine and wow was it good but then it just goes into that "WTF" and "how did I get here" territory.

Not bad. There are issues here and there and the characters are meh at times and the suspension of disbelief must be put there but it sort of reminded me of old school cheese and I enjoyed it. The writing was good as far as progression of story, and though there was cheese it wasn't enough to make me go "Oh come oooon". It was a fun little read.