Thursday, May 29, 2014

Only a Smile Away (First Kiss Romances)



Only a Smile Away (First Kiss Romances)


Price: $1.29


3.0 out of 5 stars Made me melt at the end, March 22, 2014


Okay, so in the beginning I felt the story needed a lot of work. There were missing words, horrible grammar, and it extremely unrealistic and rushed. I wasn't used to the whole calling out the audience thing. My best advice to the author: GET A BETA READER!!!!! (Please join goodreads. Here's the link to the group I manage and our beta's are free [...] You have the talent, but you need to read through this again, more than once.)

The mistakes were easy to avoid. I've never been good with grammar, but these mistake were ones that a simple read through would have fixed and it seemed like the author hadn't took the time to read through it even once.

Despite all of this, I couldn't stop reading. I was being a grammar nazi, but I was captivated. I have no idea why, but I was. Perhaps I wanted to make it to the foretold kiss.

The last 30% of the book was amazing and the end made me melt. Like that feeling when you're first falling in love, or you have a really big crush on someone and they tell you they like you too. Oh yeah, got the chills. LOVVVVVVVVEEEEDDDDDD the kiss. UGHHHH the lead up was good. I kept looking at the progress bar both hoping it would move and not move, because I wanted more, but I also wanted to hurry and get to the kiss. I want to see more with these characters. Arren is HOTTTTT! Quiet mysterious guy who plays the cello. Ugh!! I almost gave this book a 4 for the last 30% but I didn't think that would be very fair. In some people's opinion, a 3 is too generous, but like I said, despite all of the things wrong with this book, it had enough going for it that I not only finished it, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted more.
 
The pacing was fairly good for the length. I liked the characters and the karaoke scenes. I loved Arren's dialogue, especially right before the kiss. UGH I was so melting. 
 

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