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The Wild, Wild Mess: Atlanta (2000)

by Jayha Leigh(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

series

Wild, Wild

review 1: I had such high hopes when I purchased this ebook. The premise caught my attention right away, and when I began reading, I was relieved to find that the writing style had a nice pace and was virtually free of the grammatical and usage errors that sometimes slip through the cracks during the proofreading process at a lot of epublishers. However, I began to notice about a quarter of the way through the story that, while the author was making a tremendous effort (often ham-handedly) to show that Atlanta is a No Nonsense Sass Mouth Who Isn't Taking Your Crap Okay, we were getting precious little in the way of character development for this man she's supposed to be falling in love with. Once I was aware of that, I also became more aware of how much time Atlanta (and her Pos... morese, who seem only to exist in this story for the purpose of alternately threatening or approving of Atlanta's love interest,) spend belittling and de-humanizing men in general, including Steele. It is obvious that all of this is an attempt to make sure the reader really understands how much of a Unique And Independent Woman (Who Still Isn't Taking Any Crap, Especially Not From Some Rich White Man Okay) Atlanta is...but it really just comes across as misandristic and more than a little cartoonish in its exaggeration. Trading snarky banter and tongue-in-cheek bravado back and forth is all well and good, but that seems to be Atlanta's sole vehicle for communication with Steele, and it quickly gets tedious.By the time I got two-thirds of the way through the book, Ms. Leigh still hadn't bothered to mention what Steele actually does for a living in his big, fancy office, what his relationship with his family is like, what hardships he's overcome in his life, what his flaws are, what his talents are, what his favorite food is, or basically what defines him as a person besides his feelings for Atlanta. His uncle and parents pop in for a couple of paragraphs to "foreshadow" his impending fixation on Atlanta, and his best friend pops in for a couple of paragraphs to give Steele something to get jealous about, and then they all just vanish into the aether. Basically, the main character of this novel seems to be a selfish sexist, and her love interest is just a big penis, rather than an actual person. Him being a supernatural being (which I assume was supposed to add some kind of twist to the plot,) doesn't even really seem to make him different from a normal person, other than the contrivance of giving him glowy eyes on occasion.Perhaps, if I had read the story to the end, all of my issues would have been addressed and resolved, but I feel that 178 pages was plenty of leeway for the author to have come up with a little basic character development.
review 2: I'm a huge fan of sarcasm and this book was filled with it as well as playful banter. Atlanta and I are so much alike it freaking scared, I was like is this story about me…minus the hot blonde Viking…who I loved and my BF doesn't understand why, but anyway this story was really much well thought out story but the characters were amazing, and the chemistry between the two leads. So 5 stars it is! less

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