Sandra @ My Fiction Nook

This was an okay concept for a contemporary romance story but the delivery was only meh. Neither the hero nor the heroine really ever connected with me, and while this was a pleasant read (and a rather quick one), I can only give this three stars. The book was either self-published or the editor/proofreader should be fired. There were punctuation mistakes, spelling mistakes, grammatical mistakes, and each one jarred me out of the story and made my inner beta growl. Confusing you're and your is unacceptable in a published book. Not knowing that after a plural the verb must also be in the plural form is either lazy editing or sheer ignorance. And those are just a few examples.Overall, the plot moves quickly, with a huge time jump of eighteen months about 1/3 in. The author and/or her editor is also not very good at math - there's a big difference between 18 months and two years. A 10 month old child was conceived no more than 20 months ago. That's still less than two years. This inconsistency also jarred me out of the flow and made me roll my eyes.The conclusion is very romantic and might make you swoon but the changes in Mitchell's perspective come a little too sudden for my taste. And you can see the ending coming from about ten miles away. No surprises. I also didn't care too much for the writing style. It felt throughout most of the book that the author was trying to tell me how the characters felt instead of showing me. Again, this is something that a good editor would have pointed out. Not a bad read by any means, but not a great one either. Extra points for it being a free download. Edited to add: The cover, while lovely to look at, doesn't seem to have any connection to the actual story.