Second First Impressions

My history with Sally Thorne's books has been wildly varied.

I LOVED The Hating Game. I thought it was completely unputdownable, funny, sexy, and probably one of the best romantic comedies I'd read.

Then came 99% Mine. I really, really disliked this book. A really unlikeable main character, coupled with very little plot stretched out over hundreds of pages of repetition, plus conversations that went round and round in circles... it was just bad. And the writing style felt so different to The Hating Game, it was almost like a different person wrote it. If I'd read this book first, I would never have picked up another book by Sally Thorne.

So then comes Second First Impressions. Would it be more THG or more 99%M? And the answer is... it's right in the middle. The plot and characters are so much better than 99% Mine, which is a definite win. But the writing style is still more like 99%M than THG. It lacks the “must keep reading” factor, the fun, and the joy of THG.

To be honest, the writing style Sally Thorne has now isn't my thing at all, and so this will probably be the last book I read by her. But I'll still reread The Hating Game when I want a fab romance that I can't put down!