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Chargement... The Mistletoe Promisepar Aria Grace, Lorelei M. HartAucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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2.5 Stars
First, I’ll start off with the cover. I like the Christmassy feel of it, it’s pretty. But I don’t think the two men remind me of Everett or Graham.
The plot starts with Graham being stood up for dinner and Everett happens to arrive at the restaurant and they decide to eat dinner together. They have a great time and both are attracted to each other. They kiss under the mistletoe then go their separate ways for a year. The reason is Everett is pregnant and he doesn’t want to get involved yet. But they sort of tentatively agree to meet at the restaurant again the next year. In the meanwhile, there is a big jump in time of a year while both men think of the other a lot. I didn’t like the time jump as Everett goes about his life and has the baby. If it was a prologue, I don’t think the jump would’ve bothered me as much, but it wasn’t. Everett made a big deal about getting pregnant, but the whole event was glossed over. Next thing readers know, he has a kid.
The characters are nice, although I don’t remember it being mentioned what they did other than, their jobs were stressful. They seemed to fit together. The daughter, Seri, was cute and wasn’t an annoying child.
As to the story, I honestly have to say, nothing really happens. I’m writing this review and I can’t remember anything significant or anything that pops out about the story. Not even about their relationship except how they meet and the end. What I do remember is the endless monologue. There’s hardly any dialogue or action. Just loads of the characters telling and telling and talking about what they think, what they feel, and what’s going on around them. It’s like listening to a person in your living room or at the water cooler droning on about something, and you not caring what they are saying because their talk doesn’t make you feel anything. And that was a big problem with the story. All the monologue didn’t pull me in, or make me feel. For example, one of the lines said by Everett is: ‘No, I wanted to experience this joy as fully as possible.’ He’s telling me about the joy, he’s not making me feel his joy. The whole story is like this, just telling they felt happy, or sad, but not really conveying it through any of the senses or descriptions. Most authors have a problem with that when they write in first person, and very few can write first person well. When I finished the book, I was bothered by the way it was written and I kept asking myself why? I realized it was because the authors relied on the characters to just ‘tell’ readers about their emotions and the environment without the authors making the effort to really dig into the emotions of the characters and convey it to the readers. It was like surface writing, rather than diving deep. That to me is lazy writing. So, I’m going to be in the minority about liking the book. If the loads of monologue were jettisoned, this would be about one-fourth the length it is now. A short story might’ve been a lot more interesting instead of being full of filler.
Overall, the characters were fine, the daughter cute, the idea behind the plot was good, but was poorly executed. And I don’t like saying that because I love Christmas stories. It’s almost impossible for me to dislike one. I’m guessing many will like this story because of the holiday cuteness, which this does have, but I want more than that in a story I read. I don’t want to be bored by endless monologue that doesn’t pull me in or make me feel. I want to give The Mistletoe Promise, 2.5 Stars, but I can’t for the GR rating system, so I give it 2 Stars.
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