Release date : December 27th 2015
Rating : 5 Stars
Blurb :
My story isnât a love story ⦠not the typical kind anyway. As a lawyer, Iâm used to discovery, but I never saw this one coming. Every day, River gives me ten reasons to stay away, and then eleven reasons why I can’t. Our relationship was to remain strictly business, or at least I tried. Four years of marriage, and everything with Cole has changed. I never knew two people who lived together could be so distant. But Iâm not ready to give up on him.One man wants to break me.The other is just trying to get even. Both are lying to me.
Review :
I normally try to avoid spoilers on the book that I am reviewing but I have to advice you in this case that within the lines here you might find spoilers on other books I used for comparison so be careful.
The moment âBreak Evenâ by Lisa De Jong appeared on my Kindle I directly felt compelled to read it. I am not even sure if it was the cover, the blurb or a mixture of both that lured me in.
And I have to admit I was surprisedâ¦
After a few chapters I thought I had it all figured out.
When I (as usual) discussed my currently reading âobjectâ with my co-blogger â I was using my usual comparisons⦠listening you would have heard stuff like âJodi Ellen Malpas-ishâ when I referred to parts like âlinesâ or âI beg to differâ . Once I even dared to say â that there was a slight difference between River and Gideon Cross â and that difference would be that River did NOT kill Cole.
OH BOY was I WRONG ⦠(not on the NOT killing subject no that is true) Because â¦well â shortly after I was so âI figured it all outâ THAT specific chapter happened
And it occurred to me that not only one of the biggest differences to all the other books was that Marley was married.
No- this author was really clever to weave a net of all those obvious clichés to distract the reader from what was going to happen. And it worked ⦠oh yes it so worked â¦
This book was well on itâs way to get an extra âglimmerâ to its 5 Stars (the glimmer I prepared when I redesigned our blog last month and I was waiting on that first special book to use it) BUT then â when I finally finished I came to a very sobering conclusion that really only occurred to me at the end.
The dialogues were perfect
The writing wonderful
The Plot was âwell- âsurprisingâ
Here we would have reached the 4 star level in my own voting system
The extra glimmer would have been that really interesting âturn of eventsâ â¦
But counting I noticed that my 5ths star ⦠which is the most emotional one â was missing and reconsidering everything I was very surprised to find out that while really almost everything was perfect â I did not feel it â I am embarrassed honestly because this book would have deserved it.
And I am not sure where I went wrong I was so caught up in the events that it was only in the epilogue that I noticed there were no real feelings from me involved in the story.
Donât get me wrong â this is a 5 star read DEFINITVLY â I am just rambling because I wanted it to be my first 5Star+++
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