If you like The Ivy Lessens by Susanna Quinn, Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire, and Breathe by Abbi Glines, then you will like these books!
Basic Summary: Spencer Marshall was done moping. After catching her boyfriend cheating with
his secretary, she decides to have a girl’s weekend in Vegas with her best
friend Ryan. Lady Luck must be looking
out for Spencer because that weekend will change her life forever. Despite what people say, not everything stays
in Vegas.
What I Love About
This Book: It’s a good story and solid plot line. Spencer is a girl that almost any female can
relate to. Spencer caught her boyfriend
shtooping his secretary, and while that might not have happened to me it’s
certainly easy to relate how that must’ve felt for her. I also love the Gideon Cross references and
the series in general because I love that series, and if you love hot sexy
books those are the ones to emulate!
At
first it was hard to tell where Spencer and Ryan lived, city wise and finally
when it was stated in San Francisco I was little worried there was be a lack of
details about the city because there was a lack of details in many other areas,
but after reading the scene of Brandon’s and Spencer’s first date I was
pleasantly surprised to see I was wrong.
It was easy to tell from then on that the author knows the Bay area well
and was able to make it a more detailed backdrop then I would've assumed.
Cons: Right away the writing was a little too
childish for me. There wasn't tons of
details at all, the book says they were in Hawaii in the very first paragraph
but was that for vacation, is that where they live? By page 14 I have a description of Brandon,
but I still have no idea what Spencer looks like at all. There is no detail setting the scene for
Spencer and Ryan’s apartment, or Spencer’s office, or the Club 24, the Gym
where Spencer met Brandon. I mean come
on!!! I need details dude!
Throughout
the story I kept waiting for something to happen, the way the author would
start up a chapter kind of made you feel like something big was going to happen
and then nothing. People don’t want to
read about a character’s usual day over and over again. What makes romance books so good is the
roller coaster ride, reading a whole chapter about hanging out with your
boyfriend and your friend not so dramatic.
There
just needs to be more!! I still don’t know what Spencer looks like there is no
description of that actual main character, just a description of her eyes. Anytime there is a description of a house or
condo other than Brandon’s place you either get no description at all, or a
real estate catalogue description. Every
book always needs character development, and there was none of that at all!!!
Each scene just skimmed the surface excluding any kind depth at all. I don’t know why this is a constant issue in
books, if you read Fifty Shades of Grey or Bared to You what makes those books
so amazing is the depth, the details.
Ana’s quick tongue and Christian’s temper make you connect to those
characters. Nothing has to be said for
you to read what their reactions will be to a situation because at a certain
point you feel like these are real people and you know them. I don’t feel like I know Brandon or Spencer
at all, there is development of Spencer that would indicate what kind of
personality traits she should have or shouldn’t. You know nothing about their pasts, and it’s
towards the end of the book when you find out where Spencer grew up if she
still has both her parents, and if she has siblings. All of this should be touched upon in the
very first chapter. Before the story
should even start you need to develop the protagonist so when she or he starts
to interact with other characters we know the person. There is none of that in this book.
Also
the sex scenes in the book start out great they are awesome! There is tons of lead up great foreplay scenes
and all that but once Brandon and Spencer actually do the deed, there is about
a paragraph to finish it up. You can’t
have pages of foreplay, then just a paragraph of sex. Follow through is just as important in real
sex as it is in fake sex!!!!
Overall: The story starts out great, with a hot dude
at the gym then running into in Vegas and all that. But once the characters finally made it
officially all the drama kind of stopped.
There is some drama sprinkled in with fake pregnancies, and a knife but
if those scenes were more elaborated on or if there was just maybe one more
scene of that then the drama would’ve been better. There was no point where I was holding my
breath and needing to read on. I needed
more drama, more details, more depth, just more!!!!!
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