jenjn79's Reviews > Welcome to Last Chance

I hate giving up on a book. I try to push through and finish no matter what. But sometimes a book isn't working for me on any level, and given my limited reading time these days, giving up is just for the best. Which is what I decided to do with this book. I just had no interest in continuing to read it.

Series Note:
First book in the "Last Chance" series about a small South Caroline town.

Summary:
Read the summary on the book page. I didn't read enough of the book to give a more accurate summary:

"Review:"
This was a total random buy. I looked at it in Target several times before figuring I'd give it a try. Sometimes random buys pay off, sometimes these don't. This one, unfortunately, didn't.

I'd been hoping for a "Virgin River" type book...and yeah, I suppose there is a sense of that, but I couldn't get past a lot of things in the small chunk of this book I read.

I only read 48 pages of this book before I just decided to give up. Nothing about those 48 pages worked for me in any sense.

What didn't I like?

- you start off with a broke heroine on a bus continually referring to some quack doctor and his theories on "positive thinking"
- she lands in Last Chance, South Carolina...a super small town, heads to the nearest bar/restaurant and decides to pick a guy to con into some food and then she thinks about what else she'll have to do and how she'll regret it in the morning.
- heroine hooks up with a guy for the night...you're expecting at least a little steam, but you get a kiss then the scene just stops and you start up again the next morning
- the hero is a pony-tail wearing supposed bad boy who starts sobbing in the bathroom after realizing he just banged a down-on-her-luck woman, which is just another signal of how bad his life has gotten
- "bad boy" hero also has a penchant for saying "for goodness' sake" and other sanitized swears like some kind of choirboy
- "bad boy" hero also calls the heroine "little gal" and "girl"
- heroine constantly thinks of talks about the quack doctor and his "positive thinking" theories and the hero is all "glass half empty"
- there's a God-themed mini-golf course run by the hero's father, who happens to apparently be a bit crazy because he talks to angels

Is that enough to show you why I couldn't go on? Just really not my kind of book. At all.