*Book
source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
Title ~ When You Make It Home
Author ~ Claire Ashby
Publisher ~ Red Adept Publishing
Published ~ 15 June 2014
Genre ~ Contemporary | Romance
Pages ~ 320
My Rating ~ 3 bites and a nibble
Meg
Michaels breaks off her engagement and then has a fling with a married man,
ending up pregnant. Worried about what people will think of her she hides her
pregnancy until the day she meets Theo Taylor. Theo, a battle-scarred Army
medic finally home after months of rehab, figures out her secret but agrees to
keep quiet about it. In the meantime, they develop a friendship that could
deepen into something else, but so many obstacles stand in their way, mostly of
their own making. Will they overcome or crash and burn?
Not
an unusual story in this day and age. A single pregnant woman raises only the
eyebrows of the most prudish kind anymore, but 24-yr-old Meg is inordinately
concerned with what others think. This leads her to do some pretty stupid
things, like hide her pregnancy for nearly four months. I have to be honest. I
don’t like Meg at all. She is immature, self-centered and selfish most of the
time and her friends and family enable her. She thinks nothing through, acting
impulsively with no thought for anyone but herself and sees nothing wrong with
her actions. She does treat Theo differently and for the most part I can
believe she cares about him. Until she acts like a thoughtless twat then I just
want to smack her. Seriously.
Theo
is a great character. What he endures and the way he handles it is the best
part about this book. Though his leaving really pissed me off I can understand
why he did it the way he did. I don’t approve, but I understand. He seems very
real to me whereas the other characters are like cardboard cut outs and very
much like Meg herself, self-centered and immature.
The
writing is excellent and even if I didn’t like most of the characters I did
enjoy the journey.
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Theo was by far the best character in this story and I agree he didn't handle that situation right. I also felt the same about Meg, she was totally self-centered and immature, but I could understand where she was coming from.
ReplyDeleteI did cut Theo some slack because of what he was going through. I just wish he had done it differently. Meg just needs to grow up and I don't think having a baby will do it. Poor kid.
DeleteWriting was solid. Wish I liked the characters more.
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