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Blitzing Emily (2014)

by Julie Brannagh(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0062279718 (ISBN13: 9780062279712)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Avon Impulse

series

Love and Football

review 1: 2.5 stars.Pros:Characters were likable enough.Cons:Way too long - about 200 pages of his book could easily be cut out.3rd person perspective felt off.Disjointed - I often had to go back a few times and re-read a sentence to figure out who was speaking.Jumps in time threw me off.Not enough details about Emily's hurtful past - so it made her actions/distrust seem childish and annoying, rather than us feeling bad for her. I had been reading for an hour and was only at 15% and nothing has happened yet? What? Repetitive - we get it, she smells like peaches and moss. I actually read Rushing Amy (Book 2) first, and really enjoyed it. So I went back to try Book 1. I am almost glad I did it this way - I would never have read that book if I begun here. So - skip this one and begin w... moreith Book 2! You aren't missing anything and I think the author actually improves. I am still going to read Book 3 - maybe just not right away.. :-)
review 2: I wanted to like this book, I really did! But it was just too lackluster for me. I know I'm really into a romance novel when the main characters come to their "love test" and I literally ache in my heart at the pain they're going through. If it's a really good book, I may even cry. There was none of that with this story. I just didn't feel she developed the characters enough, mostly because there were big breaks of time where the story jumped ahead, and the characters were in a completely different place than before the jump. For example, when Emily went on her first trip two weeks after the engagement. They went from barely knowing each other to "I miss you soooo much!" What happened in those two weeks in Seattle that led them to that point? Also, the POV on this story was off to me. Maybe I'm too used to reading romance novels in first person, but the third person POV didn't work for me here. It felt like the story jumped back and forth between the two of them from paragraph to paragraph, sometimes. It lacked continuity and confused my brain.I'm super into nicknames. But why did she call him bruiser, and why was it lowercase instead of capital? Very odd addition.And, as a knitter, I *always* notice when knitting appears in a book. She never mentions knitting once, and then suddenly, 350 pages in, she's knitting? Knitters don't work like that. It's an obsession, not an afterthought. It should've been mentioned in the first 50 pages. ;-) less

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