Rescued Heart by Georgia Beers

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My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I didn't like either main character. One was a cheating player & other was a cold bitch. Even so I was going to give this 3 stars until the book ended the way it did.

heh. Glancing at some reviews. Most seem to be describing the baker as a sweet wishy washy doormat who (view spoiler)[grew a spine (hide spoiler)] and describing Lisa negatively. Lisa, despite being childish and cold in her 30s, had reasons. What exactly is Ashley's excuse for being a cheating player? Mmphs.

re: Ash-hole - with friends like these who needs enemies or something like that.

re: Ashley being a cheating player:
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1. She was dating two women at the same time (as in, yes hooking up with Lisa took a really long time, but she did eventually have a date with her, and with Carly (separately));
2. It could be argued that Carly (Carla?) 'knew' that Ashley wasn't in a 'we are girlfriends' stage - based on scenes in the book but;
3. Based on scenes in the book, Lisa was under the impression that Ashley was single;
4. Ashley dates Lisa, they get into a tiff, then Ashley goes on a date with Carly so - even if you can make the argument that Ashley wasn't cheating on Carly with Lisa, you can make the argument (weird, that, based on when the relationships started) that Ashley was cheating on Lisa with Carly.

Or, to make things simple, Ashley sure is a cheating player for being such a 'passive doormat'.

By the way, that's the difference between my player and my player-reputation shelf - one shelves books that shows someone being a player (like Ashley here dating two women at once, despite feeling no feelings for one, while feeling (maybe) something for the other), while the other involves a character with a player reputation (Ashley didn't have a player reputation, so this book wouldn't get on that shelf; oddly most of the 'player reputation' books I've read involve former players who no longer want to be players but have this reputation (reminds me of a MF book I read where someone decided they were going to be serious now and get a wife, but they had the worst (biggest?) rake reputation in England (this book was set back in the 1800s)).
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Rating: 2.6

Date: December 28 2016



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Zero Visibility by Georgia Beers

Zero Visibility
by Georgia Beers
Pages: 289
Date: February 24 2015
Publisher: Brisk Press
Series: None

Review
Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0
Read: May 12 to 13 2016

Just some quick thoughts - I loved the interaction of Emerson & Cassie . . up to the 23% mark when suddenly they got thrust aside for brand new point of view (Vanessa). And all the crap she brought to the story. I was horrified when she appeared, and feared the worst. I never grew to like her, care about her, or want to have anything with her story, but I got past my horror. As the story still mostly revolved around Emerson and Cassie.

Then some evil troll business man got a point of view. Then Mary, Etc. I, obviously personally, did not feel that their bits of story needed to be told from their point of view, and, to a certain extent, told at all. At least the parts told directly from their point of view. But still, story remained mostly focused on Emerson and Cassie.

I rather liked both of the main characters, and most of the side characters (with exceptions here and there – that Jonathan guy annoyed the hell out of me).

As I mentioned, I just had some quick thoughts I wanted to drop here in this box thingie. I liked the story. I liked most of the characters. There was a certain amount of angst and hair-pulling moments (and one moment wherein I had a ‘oh god, two single lesbians and suddenly there are kids thrust into the story-line?’ thought, though the kids, despite their initial gasp of horror from me, didn’t subtract from the enjoyment of the books (and added something)).

Right, as I said, just a few thoughts leaking from my mind.

May 13 2016