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So. Freaking. Painful
I would like to commend myself for persevering through this disaster featuring an oblivious, insipid main character Aimee who blunders about after her fiancé supposedly dies, hanging onto his memory but not following up on the MANY suggestions that perhaps he is alive....until almost two years later.
The book reads as a young adult book or a book written by a young adult. Spelling and grammar check out but it reads like a high school book project. Each inconsequential, irrelevant action is explained "I sent a text and it beeped on their phone a minute later" "I handed him his laptop and told him the battery was dead" "I bookmarked a bunch of websites and thought I would remind him to email them to me later" more "I texted it to him and it beeped on his phone a second later".
Also, I'm sorry but unless the main character Aimee had a glitter filled hooha there's no way this 20-something talented sexy photographer is going to pine after her for two years...to the extent of even working as a BARISTA at her coffee shop for minimum wage...with only middle school level flirting to go on.
Also, she is surrounded with a bunch of geniuses (painter, she herself a talented baker and coffee maker (?), amazing interior designer, business owners galore). The only "normal" friend who isn't a successful genius is Kristen whose only role is to call her 55 times while she is in Mexico to hold pointless conversations.
It's like the author threw a bunch of plot elements against the wall to see what would stick (hint: all of it, spoilers)
...death at sea
...psychic (who appears here and there with three different names - Laney Lacy and Lucy (EYEROLL) - but is never explained)
...unrequited love
...incest
...unexplained (and never repeated) premonition that occurs to Aimee at about 25% through the book that basically explains the end..occurring out of nowhere and for no reason at all, never again revisited
...an incredibly rare type of memory loss
...an incredibly rare type of memory loss by an entirely separate person who is only about 2 degrees separated from the other person with a rare form of memory loss (wow what a coincidence!)
...rape
...two NINETEEN hour plane trips from CALIFORNIA to MEXICO
...adoption x 2
...middle school sweethearts
...not one but two incredibly talented COFFEE makers
...DEA investigation
...money laundering
...attempted murder
...blackmail
...forged citizenship documents
...plastic surgery
...bizarre coffee concoctions
...fake sister
...I think you get it.
Can someone explain to me the point of Andy the poor goober who appears at the coffee shop a couple times wanting to date Aimee? What was the point of introducing him?
Also, seriously with the signature blue paint shade that matches Aimee's eyes? EYEROLL!!
I do have to admit Aimee's lemon blueberry cake with real blueberry filling and lemon cream icing sounds amazing.
Anyway, I'm not sure how many more Kindle first books I can withstand.
