Booked on a Feeling

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Unfortunately, Booked on a Feeling was ultimately disappointing. I actually considered DNFing around the 20% mark, because I was flat out bored. I should have just stopped reading then. Obviously, it goes without saying that it took me quite a while to care about the characters. Lizzy and Jack were interesting for about maybe a third of the novel, and then boredom came rushing back in.

This book needs another pass by with an editor, I think. The last like five percent of the novel needs to be reworked, because all it is is the ‘narrator' telling us what's happened. There is little to no showing going on. It's just and Lizzy did this, and then she did that. And then she realized this, and Jack realized that. I actually ended up skimming several pages, because I was so bored my eyes wouldn't focus. There's so much back-and-forth (and not in a good way) in the later half of this novel. Jack wants to move to LA, Lizzy wants to move to Weldon. They switch, and Lizzy figures out that she doesn't want to be in Weldon without Jack, etc, etc. It's a whole thing.

This book had the potential to be cute, but it just fell completely flat. The characters had very, very little personality. In the rare instance they DID show some sort of personality, their chemistry shone. But these scenes were few and far between, when they SHOULD have been the entire focus of the novel!

And don't even get me started on the epilogue. A surprise-honey-I'm-pregnant epilogue? When children hadn't been mentioned by either character in the ENTIRE novel? Pass.

Blah. I won't be picking up any of the other books in this series, if they're all written like this one. Two and a half stars for Booked on a Feeling, and that's me being quite generous.