Aubrey Rose (2)

I had a whole review written out, and GR ate it so the following are the cliffnotes:

Likes:
- I liked the voice of the story and I can't put my finger on why. It was almost sparse, but still getting you where you needed to go. Simple but descriptive.
- I cried twice, people. Once upon a time, I never cried while reading a book, but those days are long past. Maybe I have grown up enough to understand loss. There were two scenes that pushed my bawling-buttons, and they both dealt with Brynn and Eliot's losses.
- Math nerds finding love! I like finding romances that take unconventional leads and create a convincing narrative around them.
- There is another book! I must say that normally that might annoy me, but I am excited to continue reading about these two. There is a HEA, but to me there was still a lot up in the air that I want to see resolved.

Dislikes:
- Lack of detail in some of the math oriented scenes. Wanted more since math has a big part to play in their personal selves and relationship.
- My BIG gripe was the switching from third to first. Eliot was written in third, Brynn in first. It was weird as hell.

Minor Nitpicks:
- Story points that didn't seem to go anywhere or have much meaning, seemingly important people that we spend no time with, time gap near the end where Brynn supposedly "changed" but we aren't shown how or really why, etc.
- The text formatting was really annoying to read on my Nook too. I couldn't change the font, and there were randomly bold and italic sections of text.
- The formatting of the actual book was a little weird too... Every now and then there was a section of text from Brynn (1st person) that was apart from an actual chapter, but easily could have been part of the normal narrative. It would have made sense as a journal entry, but I don't think it was.

TLDR: LOVED this book (aside from some easily over looked hyper-critical gripes) and really want to read the next book about Brynn and Eliot! Not to mention more from this author!


ARC courtesy of eXcessica Publishing, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.… (altro)