2.5

This book has a lot of hype surrounding it, and I was in the mood to read a romantic a little bit of smoke. Although that they deliver, it didn’t deliver in a thoroughly entertaining way. The book started off strong until the two main characters began to form a relationship.

The relationship between Ava and Alex. Considering Alex is someone who always shied away from relationships was against relationships. Once he starts to form a relationship with Ava, I was quite surprised that they really didn’t have any hiccoughs or struggled with this new territory. I expected a lot more drama between the two characters as they tried to navigate this new relationship between them. 

I feel like the author, set up a bunch of plot points, and then didn’t follow through on them. We would end of chapter with them discussing swimming lessons, I assumed the swimming lessons would be the next chapter, and then it was only mentioned in passing throughout the rest of the book.

The ending was quite obvious, and I was hoping that there would be a little more to it. However, there wasn’t and by the end, I was just rushing through to get it over and done with. 

Everyone is telling me the second book in the series is a lot better. So I’m willing to give the next one a try.