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Never Stay Past Midnight (2012)

by Mira Lyn Kelly(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0373528795 (ISBN13: 9780373528790)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

review 1: I read a lot of Harlequin books. Romance, Presents, Superromance, Historical, Blaze. My mother collected them from the time I was a small child (and she taught me to read when I was 2), so I've always been around them. I have my own huge library of them. They started me on the road to reading romance, way back when.Mira Lyn Kelly's "Never Stay Past Midnight" has to be one of (if not THE) most perfect Harlequins I have ever read.Two people, each at a point in their lives where they are neither looking for, nor want a long-term relationship, meet by accident. The attraction is instant and they begin a short-term affair. Levi is leaving Chicago soon and Elise is trying to start her own business.The attraction grows, but both keep saying to themselves and to each other that it... more's only temporary. But fate has a funny way of giving you what you're looking for, just when you're certain that it's not what you want.Small crises come and go, each finds themselves leaning more on the other one for more than just "a good time."Elise gets her business. Levi leaves. But wait! That's not the end. Come, read with me and enjoy these two people who are sure they're not meant to have what they find together. It's a short journey, in terms of pages, but a very long one with a very happy ending.Mira Lyn Kelly made me laugh and cry, feel every step and beat of these two hearts. A journey I am so glad that I took.
review 2: It was never supposed to be more than a one-night stand: an exception for Elise, normal MO for Levi. Anything more would never work: Elise is in the middle of setting up her own business, and just has no time for a relationship, while Levi's career involves setting up nightclubs and selling them on after a few months, after which he moves to another city to start again. But then the one-night-stand turns into a no-strings-attached affair, in theory only getting together every once in a while, whenever they both fancy it. Except they're soon spending pretty much every evening together, doing plenty of non-sex stuff, like supporting each other in difficult situations and getting to know one another.I found this one a bit hard to get into, to be honest. The story starts in the middle of things, right after they first get together. I had no idea who these people were, and suddenly I was reading sex scene after sex scene, and that got pretty tedious. Not to mention, I had no idea why they just didn't get together, since they liked each other so much. So Elise is busy setting up her yoga/pilates studio. Big deal. Levi clearly knows what setting up a business entails, and he's never anything but supportive. So what's the problem? We have no idea. Levi's business requiring him to move cities every few months is a harder problem to solve, but it's a self-imposed rule that this is the way his business works. What's keeping him from just changing it? We have no idea.It's only much later that we understand why Elise would feel she can't follow her very time-consuming dream and have a proper relationship at the same time, and why Levi is so terrified of commitment and feels the need to uproot his whole life every few months. They're very good reasons. They just came a bit too late in the book for me. Once we understand more and I got a feel for who these two people really were, the book becomes quite good. The feelings felt real and both Levi and Elise had interesting issues.Unfortunately, for the first half, I struggled to connect with the characters at all. At about a third in, it was touch and go whether I'd finish the book. I'm glad I decided to do so, because I really liked the second half or so (except the diabetic shock-inducing epilogue, sorry), but the characters needed fleshing out much earlier.MY GRADE: A B-. less

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