Melody Grace is a fairly unknown writer. She has only released one book so far which is Unbroken.
Unbroken (Cedar cove #1): This is just an outline of the book.
(summary from Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17342189-unbroken)
POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!!
Unbroken is the story of Juliet and Emerson. It is set after their summer of love 4 years ago in which Emerson broke Juliet's heart, which was already damaged.
In present day Juliet has moved on and is currently attending University in the city, and is planning a life with her boyfriend of 2 years. But she "must" go back to Cedar Cove to clear out her families beach house because her Dad needs to sell it because he is out of cash.
I had high expectations for this book. It looked like a really good book, still your typical romance but it seemed like it would be more interesting that there would be a lot substance to the book. But in all truth although I quite liked it, it lacked substance.
Negatives:
First of all there were a lot of exclamation marks!!!! In my head that made is sound like the characters were shouting all the time. They didn't affect the book too much but they were a bit irritating. Also I thought the character lacked emotion, it was a very physical relationship between Emerson and Juliet, one which didn't really involve much more than that. Although she said "I love you" a bit, I never really got the sense that she truly did. Also it said that Emerson fought for her. There was none of that unless you count punching someone in the face then being a jerk towards Juliet as fighting for her. Most of the book he just tries to get rid of her.
Also there were quite a few unnecessary characters such as her sister and Emerson sister, they didn't add anything to the book.
Positives:
I liked the fact that the reason Emerson pushed Juliet away was because her mum before she died wrote him a letter explaining that if he loved her he let her go. I also liked the idea of there being two types of love. It was something that I hadn't read about, although it was part of the book I think she could've focused more on that. I liked the pace of the book, it was an easy read. Although it sounds like there were a lot of negatives that is more because I expected more from it. But on a whole I finished the book and enjoyed the read. In truth I didn't notice the lack of emotion until looking back on the book which was quite interesting for me.
Overall the book was decent, but definitely not one of the best books I have read so far.
Star rating:
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