All in review and release blitz, Bella Matthews

 This book has a lot of potential, but I don’t think it lived up to it.

I think the characters are solid but could’ve done with a little more development and transformation. I would’ve liked to have seen both Brady and Natalie before they meet, their lives as they were before. I did really like Bash, Annabelle, Chloe, and Tiffany intrigued me.

I would’ve liked to have seen this book stretched out too. It feels like everything was just getting started and it ended. The hitch at the end was over in a matter of pages and came out of the blue, something even one of the characters notices. It would’ve built the suspense so much more if it was built throughout the book and not fixed so easily.

The whole book almost has a rushed feel to it, something not entirely fully developed. The info dump in the epilogue is symptomatic of this.

I also found the writing style a little clunky. The use of contractions, or non use, made for a stilted reading experience and I felt some of the dialogue again, needed to be stretched out more. Not everything needs to be said in one response, there can be back and forth.

The story here is a nice one, I just think it needs a little more work. Sorry!