| Title: Almost Perfect Author(s): Susan Mallery Rating: C |
This book had a lot of things going for it. I liked the heroine, her son was realistic, the kick-off for the plot regarding her nieces being left alone after their father was sentenced to prison.
And then there was the supposed hero of the piece. I suppose my main beef with Mallery’s Ethan Hendrix was that there never enough from his point of view, and without his point of view I just didn’t feel connected to his character. The physical attraction between Ethan and Liz was very evident, but I suppose I couldn’t figure out why she’d be bothered with him. She spent the book in a town surrounded by people who accosted her and were downright vicious and Ethan didn’t get around to defending her until the end of the book.
Like the first book in the series, Chasing Perfect, the book was carried by the charm of the heroine, but even that book was propped up by the second half. Almost Perfect never really got going, in my opinion, and Ethan and Liz seemed to get together at end simply because Mallery decided it was time.
I couldn’t find myself rating it any higher than a C, and if I hadn’t been able to finish it it might have been lower. This book exemplified one of the characteristics that I like least about romance novels — it depended on a physical attraction to depict love and then told me the characters loved one another without any evidence in the first 200 or so pages to explain it.
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