'Member when the teeny-tiny novella-ish teaser of this book came out last year? Oh man, that got me excited!!! I gave it Best of the Best!Wish that excitement could have lasted *sniff* a bit more *sniff again*....
Book Rating: Here a little, there a little
Oh ladies, ladies. I had SUCH great hopes for this story, and as you well know I am a huge fan of Dee's, but this story fell kinda flat for me.
The hero and heroine were enjoyable to a degree, but there wasn't much to entice me to continue reading about Billy Jack and Hunter Scott. For me, the "fair" kinda did a number on the story, as it had done in the first book. It took too much of center stage for me to be able to sit back and just get lost in a story about a boy and girl, you know what I mean? Not that having great historical facts, settings, etc. are bad, but it seemed like a third wheel and distracted me from the story.
Also, the initial premise seemed to get lost as the plot continued and therefore my interest got lost along with it.
Now, please know that again, its a great clean story and its got some super cute scenes, (also some super sad ones...) and as always I encourage readers to give it a try and see for themselves if they will like it--because if you look at the Amazon reviews, its got a lot of good ones! This might fit your bill!
Did you read her first "Fair" story, what did you think of it? Are you interested in reading this one--or if you HAVE read it--what did you think?
I will continue to give Dee a try, even though her last few have been a bit of a bummer. Onward and upward!
(Thank you to the publisher for my free review copy!)
Happy Reading!
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I've tried several times to read this book but I can't seem to get into it. I had the same problem with the first book in this series too. Dee is one of my more favorite authors so I was greatly disappointed that I didn't like these books. I will still continue to try and read it, but I agree I think the Fair plays to big of a role in this book. Maybe a little less historical facts and more focus on the characters would be better....for me.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your honest review! I've really liked and really disliked different books of hers, but I don't want to miss out on the ones I'll really like :)
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