Its time for Mini~Reviews, where I get out a few thoughts on a bundle of books I've read. Short, sweet and to the point. This week Im taking on Indies and contemporary romances..

Falling into You by Jasinda Wilder
March 14, 2013 (Indie)
Contemporary Romance
Purchased
Warning-Graphic Sexuality, language
3/5 Stars

So I get it, I get why everyone is going ga-ga over this book, the first half is just amazing. A sweet story about a girl named Nell and a boy named Kyle who grow up as next door neighbors, forever best friends, and eventually teenage lovers.

I fell in love with their story, I adored the entire concept of having all our firsts together and watching the couple fall in love and the journey into adulthood. Sadly while I knew a death was coming it was heartbreaking when it came. Obviously I knew the story was going to change drastically but I was hoping maybe somehow through Nell's grief we would get a new tender, more mature romance when the older brother Colton came into the picture.

Jumping into the second phase the book though kind of threw me for a loop with my face looking much like this...................

The girl Nell was in part one certainly did die with Kyle and she became an annoying exacerbated character for the duration, to the point that she was completely unrecognizable. The book centered around self mutilation (cutting) and self destruction (drinking) and more specifically A TON of sex, and not great sex if that makes sense. Colton and Nell's relationship in a nutshell is downright weird, and reading through the ever loving long 6 page sex romps wasn't sensual or even romantic, the scenes themselves resembled text book sex and raunchy descriptions that were more off-putting than enticing. Ill admit after 1,2,3 and 20 sex scenes later, I just skimmed them trying to connect to any type of emotion the characters had. Outside of what I loved in the first half I failed to connect to anything, the reactions were very over dramatic for both Nell and Colton and coping was nonexistent.

For part one I would give this 4/5 stars, for part two I would give this 2/5 stars and would only recommend this to serious romance readers who like graphic descriptions in the sex department. You will either love this or hate this, but for sure will find something to talk about when it comes to its tragic, doomed, self-loathing characters who find somewhat messed up happily ever afters.