Review: Night Owl

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Title: Night Owl
Series: The Night Owl Trilogy #1
Author: M. Pierce
Genre: Erotic Romance
Pub Date: February 11, 2014
Heat Rating: Hot & Steamy
Source: Purchased
Rating: 2 Kisses
   
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             Synopsis:

At twenty-eight, Matt Sky has the perfect life. He has a beautiful girlfriend, a massive inheritance, and four national bestsellers -- all penned under his airtight alias, M. Pierce.
At twenty-seven, Hannah Catalano is a train wreck. Her boyfriend is a deadbeat and her job is abysmal.

Matt and Hannah meet online as writing partners. Their relationship is safe, anonymous, and innocent...
Until Matt sees a picture of Hannah. Hannah's picture sparks an attraction Matt is powerless to ignore. When circumstance brings Matt and Hannah together, the strangers begin a love story that's passionate, poignant, unforgettable, and unstoppable.

 

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My Thoughts:

"There is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness"

My dear friend Jenny at The Review Loft and I decided to do a buddy read and tackle a book on our mutual TBR list and after narrowing it down to a few choices we decided on Night Owl based on all the positive reviews. 

I wish I could be one of the ones that loved this book, but alas I can’t.  I honestly wanted to DNF, but because Jenny had finished it, it would have not been fair since she suffered through the book. 

The story starts off right away with a physical relationship between Matt and Hannah, and it felt like a cheap booty call, not this great love story it has been hyped up to be.   I kept waiting and hoping that after this sexual tension that had built up between Matt and Hannah was released (this is an assumption, because we never see that happen) that it would become this great love story, unfortunately it didn’t.  As I continued to read, the story felt like a series of sex scenes with an under developed story tying them together.  There was no connection between Matt and Hannah and it kind of reminded of bad porn, where it is cheap instead of sexy.

I could not connect with Hannah as I felt she was not relatable and Matt was a complete tool and jerk to both Hannah and others in his life.  He is so far from being a book boyfriend, he would be the book anti-boyfriend.  The only time where the story got good was when something happened to Matt.   I felt like a horrible person and a freak for thinking that book started getting good when Matt hit an all-time low in his life. 

When I finished the book, I had many feelings go through me and wondering if something was wrong with me because I did not love the book like everyone else.   Jenny was so kind to assure me that nothing was wrong with me and share with me Book Riot’s post about the seven stages of not loving a book. It made realize it was ok, not to love the book.   I have finally made it stage seven and accepted that I did not love it and will not be reading the rest of the books in the series. 

If you are looking for a story with a series of sex scenes with a story in between – then this book is for you. 

Go to The Review Loft to check out Jenny's thoughts on this book.