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Cargando... Lucky in Loveland (Welcome to Loveland Book 1)por K-lee Klein
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Book 1 of the Welcome to Loveland seriesLoveland, Colorado is a special place all year round, a community of creativity and art, with scenic views and majestic mountains. But the town really shines once a year, on Valentine's Day.Lucky Roberts has lived in Loveland his whole life. He has good friends, strong family support, and is all about keeping his community fun and alive. The only thing Lucky has been "unlucky" with is love. But rather than avoiding February fourteenth in his hometown, he throws himself into helping others deliver their messages of love. Enter Jack Canon. Jack moved to Loveland for a fresh start, in both his personal and professional lives. After a tough year, he's finally hoping to just blend in, maybe carve a little niche for himself that his parents would have been proud of. What he didn't expect was a pseudo-lumberjack with a killer body and shy smile to turn his world upside down - and he sure didn't expect to like it so much. When Lucky meets Jack, he feels like a thirteen year-old with his first crush. He's clumsy, stammering, and the first greeting out of his mouth is a less than articulate, "Wow!" Words like adorable and manbun suddenly become part of his vocabulary as he discovers a deep, hidden need to romance the hell out of Jack.And what better way to do that than during the most romantic season in the City of Love? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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2.5 Stars
When I read the blurb, I thought this would be the perfect story for me as I like sweet stories. Unfortunately, it left me disappointed. I couldn’t connect to Lucky or Jack as characters or as a couple.
Lucky is an ex-hockey player who now teaches hockey and sports to kids in Loveland. Jack is a kindergarten teacher and artist who’s just moved to town. He left California after his parents died because of unpleasantness with his sisters. The story opens with Lucky coming to visit Jack’s class. The first chapter is completely about Jack and Lucky in the class with the kids monopolizing all the scenes. It was a slow and boring chapter and I don’t think the best way to open a book. I immediately lost interest and found myself wanting to put the book aside, which I did frequently while reading this. I also wanted to skim read but didn’t, since I signed up to review.
The author told the story mostly through monologue with little dialogue. Each character told how they felt, told what they thought and described their environment and told their feelings. I wanted to feel what the MCs felt, to get into their lives. Instead, I never could. The writing kept me floating on the surface, never pulling me in. I couldn’t identify with the MCs and couldn’t feel the connection between them. Because of this distance, the book had a hard time keeping my interest. We are told about Lucky’s character through other townspeople, but we don’t experience his emotions or history through him except by being ‘told’. We also don’t really find out much about Jack.
I often found it difficult keeping the characters straight. They didn’t have the same first letter in the name so that couldn’t have been it. After a few chapters I realized why I was confusing them. Both characters have the “ck” in their names. Close enough to make the names confusing, also they didn’t seem that much different in personality other than Lucky was more open than Jack.
There are quite a few grammar errors, extra words and missing words in this book. I could see where it looked like the author had one idea in mind how to write a sentence, then changed her mind but didn’t correct the sentence by removing the previous words. At times the added words made it confusing enough I couldn’t figure out what the sentence actually meant. It would probably be a good idea for one or two more people to go over the book to find these mistakes since there are quite a few of them. Removing them would lead to a more pleasurable and smoother reading experience.
The story became a bit more interesting with Jack getting a phone call from one of his sisters towards the end. That subplot wasn’t finished, so we’re left with a cliffhanger. It looks like there will be another book after this one so hopefully that dangling storyline with be completed. The MC’s relationship ended on what I would call a HFN rather than a HEA.
Unfortunately, this book didn’t work for me for the reasons I mentioned. But I think from the other reviews listed, that many readers have enjoyed it. If you’re the kind of reader that doesn’t notice grammar mistakes, or don’t mind only observing the MC’s emotions and lives, then you’ll probably enjoy this book. There really isn’t any angst to this. In fact, that’s what I liked about the book, the author didn’t create an over dramatic story. It’s just the everyday life of two guys getting to know each other, which I think works. Not all stories need to contain angst or make a reader cry, life isn’t always like that. But at the same time without the issues causing the angst, we need to be able to even more clearly experience a person’s emotions and sensory input, which I don't think were conveyed well with any depth.
If you’re looking for a fast, sweet, no angst read focused around Valentine’s Day, you will probably like this. I couldn’t identify with Jack and Lucky, and the story didn’t pull me in with the author’s style of writing, but I was able to finish the book. I give Lucky in Loveland, 2 Stars.