Series: Callahan #1
Author: A.C. Marchman
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Pub Date: December 31, 2012
Heat Rating: Hot & Steamy
Source: Purchased
Rating: 1 Kiss
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Synopsis:
Allie Marshall has dealt with a traumatic past that she desperately wants to keep buried. She moved to Atlanta to escape her old life and pursue her dream of becoming a Physician Assistant. With the help of her roommate, Livey, she has finally gotten her life back on track and will be graduating from Emory University with honors.
Then, she meets Donovan Callahan, a sexy and wealthy doctor who Allie cannot resist. Their relationship starts off intense and full of passion. Donovan wants to give Allie the world. But she soon learns he was involved with Claire Dubois, a reality star convicted of murdering her husband. Will she stick by his side when all of his baggage comes to the surface or will she be overwhelmed and turn her back on him?
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My Thoughts:
I don't know where to even begin with the review - except I may need some wine with all the cheesiness from this story. Same premises as all your alpha male stories - instant love, want to protect, etc. However, with this story it felt like it tried too hard to follow the formula. I could not connect with the characters because the heroine, while trying to be an independent woman, she ended being this over-analyzing, crying girl that had me rolling my eyes more than once. The hero kept switching from the Southern gentleman to dominant male so much he felt like a Jekyll and Hyde character that I did not know who the true hero was. The other part that had me rolling my eyes was the constant comments from both couples of the "instant love" they were experiencing and the need to reassure each other about this relationship - even though the relationship was less than a week old.
The story itself started off well, however I kept waiting for twist in the story line that wanted you to root for the couple and it never it came so the story line felt stale after a while. Based on how the book ended, it appears the twist will happen with the second book, but as a reader I would have wanted to see something that really tested the couple more than what was given to us in this book.
While this was self-published, I could not get past the spelling errors, grammatical errors, and inconsistencies in the story line. There were a couple of times when I had to re-read a part to figure out what the author was trying to say due to missing words or letters in words. As a reader I would have appreciated that the author spent more timing editing, hired an editor, or even had a beta reader read the book to check for these errors.
Putting all the editing errors aside, I could not connect with the characters or the storyline so I am passing on the rest of the series.
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