Try Easy: Jill Brashear

 I received a free copy via Voracious Readers Only.

This was a good book to read on a quick vacation on the beach. It is one that I won't be reading again. While the story was fun, and books that take place in exotic, beach locations make me happy, I wasn't thrilled with a lot of points in this book.

I don't like when authors write in dialects. While I understand that the authors do this to help the readers immerse into the book and characters, I find it takes me away from the story. I have to bring myself out of the narrative to translate what the author is trying to say which frustrates me. I don't enjoy having to work to read a book, especially one that is supposed to be as easy as this.

I felt a lot of the plot drivers were forced and faked. None of them seemed realistic, and if they are realistic, the characters don't react in realistic or understandable ways. It works to move the story along, but it doesn't work to tell the story.

The characters were pretty frustrating as well. I liked Lou a lot in the beginning. I like characters who are photographers. I think it's a fun way to paint the pictures of the story. However, she was overall a weak character with no backbone. She spends a few pages gushing about her blossoming relationship with Paul, but within 24 hours of her vacation is making out with an islander, and that is obnoxious (on that note, this book was much more inappropriate than I can enjoy). 

All in all, it is a book I won't pick up again. It was quick to read and had some positive notes, but the negatives outweighed the positives for me.