The Reed Brothers, Book 2.5

I Picked Up This Book Because: Random selection

The Characters:

Sean:
Lacey:
Emily, Friday, Paul, Logan and one other Reed brother.. Maybe Matt

The Story:

A short cute story about the beginning of Sean and Lacey’s romantic relationship. I hope I get see more of them in the future.

The Random Thoughts:



The Score Card:



4 Stars

Eh.  This was ok.  It was free, so I won't complain.  I didn't think it was as bad as some of the harsher snarkier reviews.  It wasn't great, though.

I'm not Deaf and I don't know anyone who's Deaf (I guess it's supposed to be capitalized - I don't know?), so I can't comment on how that was handled.

I thought Emily's secret was nothing when it was revealed; not when compared to all of the drama about her having a secret.

I did not understand Logan's sleeping with anyone who propositioned him ways.  He just does it.  Just because.  And he just stops when he meets Emily.

Emily's father was contradictory in behavior.  The description of her mother appears to indicate contradictory behavior, too.

I'm not sure why Emily and Logan like each other.  Their initial meeting was pretty interesting.  Otherwise, it seemed to be based on Logan's mystical understanding of the art Emily was wanting to have tattooed on herself.  And she liked that he took it and modified it to "give her an escape".  Just weird.

This was just okay for me.  I doubt very much that I'll read any of the other books in the series.

So while the series started with unique characters and a sweet storyline...it's sequel and the second part of Emily's and Logan's story took a speed train to cliche-ville.

Don't get me wrong this is still well written, I still like the brothers, nope thats wrong, I adore them. BUT even that could not stop the ensuing eye rolling as the plot went from cute and different to I-know-each-freakn-turn... and to be fair, I felt quite alright about the predictable and all that for about 80% - then the "big" twist/tragedy ensued and well frankly it was a huge disappointment- suddenly all is well? WTH? How?

Again don't get me wrong, I loved the end. But I just did expect more than the fluff I got in this book. I expected the great character building that Falkner gave us in Tall, Tatted and Tempting. But sadly that didn't happen. I got instead very corny and uber-cliche rich people thrown into the fold. I mean the father and the ex- were really really over the top cliche. And I seriously found it grating - then the sudden change of heart of BOTH of them. Why would the ex suddenly fess-up? It made no sense to me.

Saying alll this though- I am so going to read the other books, cause I still love the Reed Brothers and Falkner can write. I also gotta admit that I had huge - massive expectations and it might be a tad hard to meet them

Well, I guess wish me luck for the next book.

Love the Reese Brothers!
Logan is a unique and interesting MC but there are so many cool twists and turns to this that make this a cute & fluffy worth reading...
AND the end? OMG! I need the next book. NOW! *runs to amazon*