Books in Review: Everlasting Sin

Let me start by saying that I've read other J.S. Cooper books before, namely the Forever Love Series: The Last Boyfriend, The Other Side of Love, and Before Lucky. I should've known better with Everlasting Sin. 

I read the preview that's available on Amazon's website and was intrigued. But at $3.99 and 275 pages, I thought it'd be worth it. 

Hudson and Riley have known each other since they were nine and six, respectively. They've been in love with each other for just as long. But neither is willing to admit it to the other. A tragedy 11 years later leaves them devastated and Hudson broken after a night they spend together. After four years of radio silence, they meet at a gym where Hudson is training to compete in a fight worth $1,000,000. Hudson is at odds with their reunion, struggling to let Riley live her life without his demons while desperately wanting to be with her. 

Unfortunately, the story doesn't seem to flow. Don't get me wrong, the story line flows, I just feel that the writing isn't polished. I generally like the premises of Cooper's stories, I just wish they were longer or focused on one aspect to develop it more. If I were you, I'd SAVE IT. 

I mentioned to one of my coworkers that I read about five books a week and he was shocked. Now, granted they're romance novels, but they're still books. How do people just not find reading enjoyable? How can they not get caught up in the characters?

Books in Review: Lunch Time Reads

Sometimes, I am incredibly cheap. I hunt down free books on Amazon all the time. I also check content (normally) and page count before purchasing a book. Today, as I was perusing the Kindle eBooks, I stumbled upon a few free romance books that looked promising. Since they were free, I went ahead and downloaded with one-click (boy can that get me in trouble!).

The first was Rescue Me: A Valentine's Day Short Story by Serena Bell. It was super short. Molly is stuck on a ledge outside her apartment after attempting to rescue her Jimmy Choo, which just so happened to stop on the ledge and didn't fall the 20 feet to the ground?. Then there's Dave, fellow building tenant, to the rescue. All of this happens on Valentine's Day. Man...the title kind of gives it away. After a fallen ladder, the reemergence of Valentine's Day Dumper (ex-boyfriend) Peyton, and the rescue of one Jimmy Choo, Molly and Dave make it back inside just in time to properly celebrate Valentine's Day. Hey! What's a random hook-up with your neighbor on a romantic holiday? This took me about fifteen minutes to plow through. Haha, get it? Plow. ANYWAY, it was free. It was good but DON'T PAY FULL PRICE FOR IT. Twenty pages of content isn't worth $0.99 to me.

The second book I picked up today was Connections by Selena Kitt. After skimming through the brief plot description, I thought, "what the hell." Again, it was free. Cathy is this strange character who seems to have trouble connecting with reality and is this shell of a person, randomly calling people in the phone book. Only, one night, a victim of her calls startled her enough to speak back. Fast forward eight months of now constant communication with Seth (literally the book jumps eight months for no rhyme or reason) and they're meeting for the first time in person. Sex, awkwardness, and an incredibly abrupt ending follow. This was FREE and I'm telling you to SAVE IT. It's definitely not worth the original $2.99 digital price.

The third book I read today at lunch was The Escort Next Door by Clara James. This book I enjoyed the most of the three. I had to keep reading something after the depression the last one left me in. Julia is a late twenties, married housewife with three children under eight. Lo and behold, her executive husband is cheating on her. With an overbearing mother-in-law and an outwardly iron clad pre-nup she struggles to find a way out of her marriage and how to support her children. This is the first book in a short trilogy. While the end of this book doesn't provide any resolution to the problem at hand, it makes you want to continue reading. It's not poorly written and keeps me intrigued. The digital list price for this is $0.99. The next two books in the trilogy are each listed at $2.99 though. All the books are about 80 pages in length, so as good as it may be, I'm not spending another $5.98 to find out what happens. It's up to you but DON'T PAY FULL PRICE FOR IT.

Have you found anything worth the full price lately?