Is she top or bottom, which men if any will she choose to be with, kept me wondering til the end
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This is the very first book I read by Megan Hart. It's been a one way love train ever since. I adore almost everything she writes. Anyway, I didn't feel this book was about sex or either of the main men in the story but about Paige. This book is how she learns herself and finally gets comfy in her own skin. I love that. There are of course a couple hot men along the way.

The plot is solid and I love the character quirks that makes Paige seem real. I loved this book and have re-read it a few times. ( )

Paige has a new divorce and a new job. Misdirected notes start showing up in her apartment mailbox, and she reads them before passing them on to the right mailbox. The notes contain commands, some sexual and some not. Paige follows the commands even though they aren't meant for her and through doing so discovers things about herself. Meanwhile, she has a difficult boss she begins to understand, a handsome neighbor she may be falling for, and an ex-husband who seems to want back into her life.

Meh. This fairly compelling premise fails to deliver because the story focuses in all the wrong places. The boss thread belonged in a different story (and probably a different kind of story) altogether--it always felt like it was taking me away from the real story and also never got the attention it needed to develop fully. Giving a romantic heroine two love interests (here, the neighbor and the ex) is always tricky because it risks readers liking the "wrong" one more than the one she ends up with (and you have to divide character development time between the two, thus potentially giving the development of one too little attention). In Switch, I absolutely was routing for the guy Paige doesn't end up with (and I felt really, really bad for him when she, realizing he is a sub to whom all those notes were addressed, "takes over" as his mistress without telling him (never mind how), and then, when she decides to get back with the ex, just drops him BY LETTER when he is expecting to meet his mistress in person for the first time. Consent issues aside--not that they can really be aside-- WT-everloving-F? Seriously?) Furthermore, I never warmed to Paige. In pretty much any other genre, this would not be a problem as long as she was interesting and did interesting things, but in a romance novel, it kind of takes the fun out of the whole thing. Flern. ( )

One word, awkward! ( )

I got bored to tears by the opening of the story which was an info dump and the leading mentally masturbating over stationary. I like paper and pens, but this was page after page of detailed information on paper. She likes fancy types of paper, sealing waxy and calligraphy sets. I GET IT! I didn't need to beat over the head with this information and honestly she was such a vacuous, needy and painfully insecure character I flounced.

Really, if you care that much about someone you hate that you spend that much time trying to find the 'perfect' present for them you have some serious issues and you need a therapist.

I wish authors would realize that this level of insecurity isn't quirky, it's unhealthy at the least and severely disturbing at the most. Also, did I mention how boring it was?

You shouldn't have to work this hard to give a crap about the characters and story. ( )