Oh this is bad luck - I'd love to listen to this audiobook but it is read by Shayna Thibodeaux. Too many other books by Thibodeaux infiltrate my appreciation of future characters - can't put up with the contamination. ( )

"Until it Fades" was cute and romantic, but it was also repetitive and predictable. It started well but after a while I wanted to shake Catherine. In my opinion, Brenna, Catherine's five-year-old daughter, saves this book. She was delightful and she continually made me smile with her antics and innocence. Her relationships with Keith, Catherine's long-suffering best friend, and Jack, Catherine's younger brother, were touching and I loved how they interacted with each other. In fact I preferred the scenes when they were in the book more than when Catherine and Brett were together, which wasn't very often.

I never felt the chemistry between Catherine and Brett. It felt forced and they hardly knew each other. There were no deep and meaningful conversations between them, in fact they barely communicated with each other for the first-half of the book, except through a few text messages. Their connection seemed to be based on physical attraction, more than anything else.

Overall, "Until it Fades" was not one of K.A. Tucker's better books. ( )

WELP, that was fun. DNF at 24%

Mostly because Cath has no redeeming qualities for me to relate to. I just plain didn't like her.

See, she pulled the hero from a burning car. Then felt relieved and guilty about it. Then she focuses on her mistakes 7 years ago. Then she feels relieved and guilty, but wants to hide her past from her daughter, or oh noes, her daughter will find out she was the victim of a school teacher pedophile who she was in love with. (Her daughter is 5 and SO SMART. I know a many precocious kids, including incredibly mature and "aware" ones. 5 is not the age at which they are upset about you being the victim of a pedophile, nor is it the age you understand one night stands with drug dealers. They, uh, don't have that capacity to understand that yet...I mean, c'mon. Cath is worried about her daughter getting made fun of. I just..what?)

Oh, and she leads her best friend on like a pup. I mean I'm in my mid-20s, in a small town and there's a guy I can not only count on but I call my best friend? Sounds like a catch. Instead, Cath is relieved when he's not serious with women b/c he can still focus on her. But you know, not like, in that way. Because she'll never want him that way...

Cue the getting obsessed with the hockey player you saved. I thought she wouldn't figure it for a while based on the blurb of this book, but no, she knows quite quickly post-accident. Then she proceeds to get all hot for him from afar. At 24% he showed up, and I just didn't care anymore.

But it looks like this may be a case of the "maybe it's just me." bleh, that heroine.

4.5 stars. Excellent novel! ( )

I love KA Tucker and have no clue why I put off reading this for so long. Unfortunately, this one did not blow me away. It was still good but did not rise to the level that I expect from the author.

I am not a fan of insta-love at all, so I appreciated that Cate and Brett do not actually meet until after 100 pages. However; it moved so slow even after they meet and I found the story dragging. I enjoyed the beginning, but from there not much happens. I do feel this would make a great made for TV movie though.

Overall, this was not her best work and I was a little disappointed. Still a solid three star read, but I expect more from one of my favorite authors. ( )