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My Only Exception (2000)

by Erika Trevathan(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: Initially, the product description led me to believe that the heroine Presley will meet the hero Braden for the first time in the book but as the story begins with the internal thoughts of the heroine, they have actually known each other a year. They work together at a restaurant and he has tried numerous times to get her to go out with him but so far she has resisted because she knows she wouldn't be able to trust such a womaniser.Whilst I liked the authors writing, she did far too much 'telling' and not enough 'showing' I was 17% into the story before any conversation even took place. A lot of that 17% was repetitive storytelling. In fact, I would say 90% of the story was Presley's internal thoughts. There was just not enough dialogue to really get a feel for the storyli... morene which had so much potential.At first I thought it was going to be a bit like the S C Stephens book 'Thoughtless'. The description of the band members seemed similar and Braden had written a love song just for Presley and he even gets a tattoo for Presley (a rather unromantic one in my opinion!) but the distinct lack of dialogue just ruined what could have been a really good story.We are even 'told' rather than 'shown' the sex scenes. I did like Braden what little I knew of him but I didn't like Presley much. I couldn't believe in their love story or how they fell in love with one another as I didn't get to know the characters enough. The ending whist romantic just seemed a bit rushed.In future books I hope the author does more showing than telling as her writing definitely has potential.
review 2: I'll start this review with saying that I did enjoy the book and that I will more than likely be reading the second book when it comes around. One of the large draw backs for me was how incredibly short this book was. I want to say that the reason for this was because it was more like "oh, let me tell you what happened" instead of a descriptive, beautifully flowing scene coming together. The second draw back for me was how obvious everything was. With the way that the book is written you know from the very beginning that Braden is in love with Presley, she's in love with him, and she's just too dense to notice it. It makes for a frustrating book, and some "Finally!"s being shouted at certain points. I think that if their first meeting was written into the book instead of in an "Oh yeah, we meet a year ago" way it would have added a lot to the book. All those times he supposedly came onto her and all of that could have added so much more length and story to the book. I guess what I'm trying to say is this book kind of leaves you feeling like you just read the end of it. less

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