Laura’s Review of Mine (Real #2) by Katy Evans

If you like Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire, Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens, and Fighting for Flight by J.B. Salsbury then you will love this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Basic Summary:   He’s mine, and I’m his.  Our love is all-consuming, powerful, imperfect, and real…

In the international bestseller REAL, the unstoppable bad boy of the Underground fighting circuit finally met his match.  Hired to keep him in prime condition, Brooke Dumas unleashed a primal desire in Remington “Riptide” Tate as vital as the air he breathes…and now he can’t live without her.

            Brooke never imagined she would end up with the man who is every woman’s dream, but not all dreams end happily ever after, and just when they need each other the most, she is torn away from his side.  Now with distance and darkness between them, the only thing left is to fight for the love of the man she calls MINE.

What I Love About This Book: The opening scene in this book is the bomb!!! It’s what I love most about books that either involves fighters or rock stars those awesome scenes where their fans are screaming their names, going crazy for the action playing out in front of them, and the opening of this book doesn’t let you down.

            I also like that there is some drama right off the bat, it hooks you pretty quickly and right away reminds you that this is a tumultuous relationship and this is the beginning (I type with an evil smile).   There is a creepy crawly part of the book that literally had my skin crawling and a chill when through my body.  Remington Tate is hot, sexy, and sooooo much more.  Who wouldn’t love a guy that beats the crap out of someone that has crazy sex with you after??

            The plot itself is very compelling there are is a lot going on, the story goes kind of fast as well so it definitely keeps you on your toes.  There are definitely a lot of lows, and some great sexy highs.  The sex scenes in the book are plentiful and full of exquisite detail, and who doesn’t love those wonderful details? 

Cons:  Okay in the beginning when Brooke is explaining how hot and sexy Remy is was all good, but after she does it a dozen times by page 30 I was kind of getting annoyed.  I get it already, Remy is hot, his eyes are beautiful, he’s built, and he’s a fighter blah blah blah.  Move along!!!! Plus what’s really insulting is that at no point during all this attention to the male in the story, there are no solid details about the look of Brooke herself.  I get most girls read these books, but at least pay some attention the protagonist in this book!!! Especially if someone hasn’t read the first one and this is just a standalone for them.

            Again with the lack of details in books!!!! There are pages and pages of what Remy looks like but I get the bare minimum of the places they are staying in, the rings he’s fighting in, etc.  I can’t stand it when authors skimp on so much but then concentrate on one thing, it’s inconsistent and it does a disservice to the reader. 

            The writing is very elementary and it makes me kind of not like this story at all.  I loved the first book and I don’t know if I was so in love with Remy that I missed how bad the writing is, or this book was rushed and the editing wasn’t where it should have been.  There are so many things skimmed over when there should’ve been more attention paid, and the flow from scene to scene is just horrible.  The way the scenes play out don’t really connect the story together correctly and it reads more like a book report than a love story because of it.  Not only is this story not realistic at all, but the way some of the characters are written like Brooke’s best friend Melanie are so ridiculous they cross the line into just corny, than funny.

Overall:  This book is only so so, and I struggle with how many stars to give this book because I loved Real, and I love Remington and I wanted to love this book, but the writing is just so bad. The sentences are fragmented, and the scenes are stunted making the characters not really developed the right way at all.  You would be in trouble if you hadn’t really read the first book because although Brooke talks about her past and herself a lot in this book, you have no real sense of who she is as woman separate from Remington.  She isn’t a strong female lead at all, I get books where the female lead is addicted to their companions but there is not character development of her at all in this book. 

            The actual plot itself is pretty good, and like I said I love Remington Tate, and he is an awesome character but that’s about it.  The flow of the book just feels off from page one, and the details are just horrible in some parts and ridiculous thorough in others.  I could care less after hearing three or four times what vegetables produce what nutrients, it’s boring and I really could care less.  It’s wonderful that, that kind of research or knowledge is put into a book but to just skim over places or people which could’ve added to the plot and made the book 10 times better, they are just forgotten.  I could care less after the 100^th time of hearing how beautiful Remy’s blue eyes are, and how amazing and muscular he is on every single page.  It’s insult to have so much details about the male character and not pay much attention to the female lead, but when you do pay her any type of attention is whiny and negative.  I don’t like when authors feel the need to re-write a story from the other person’s POV in an whole other book, so I wasn't excited to read Remy (Real#3), and now I don’t want to read it at all.  This was a huge disappointment for me and I’m kind of sad to give this book such a bad review.