Author: Lynda LeeAnne
Year: 2012
Series?: This Can't Be Happening #1
Format: E-Book (Kindle)
Genre: Romance, New Adult, Contemporary
What's it about?: At the age of eighteen, Alexis has met the love of her life, Landyn. He's the perfect boyfriend and the two are madly in love and plan on spending the rest of their lives together. That is, until the party that changed everything. Alexis and her best friend Trish catch Landyn cheating on Alexis, in fact they heard the whole thing. Devastated, Alexis leaves town to start a new life without Landyn, and she's pregnant with the baby she never told him about. Six years later, Landyn discovers where Alexis is and that they have a daughter, and he will do anything to get them back.
My opinion: While I am normally a big fan of the angsty unknown pregnancy plot, this book fell far below expectations. The actual plot was pretty good, it was the author's poor writing style that sank the book for me. There were so many instances where character development could have gone deeper but instead the surface was scratched and left the reader disappointed. I hate that there was no elaboration on what Landyn was doing in the years he was apart from Lexi, sure there was the casual mention that he was in the marines and owns a bar, but that was it! Six years holds a lot of life events and while Lexi's six years were described, Landyn's weren't. I also had a hard time with the fact that while Lexi held out and didn't take Landyn back after her cheated on her, like ten minutes after seeing him for the first time in six years she's having sex with him and cheating on her boyfriend! WTF?! Talk about being a hypocrite. She can't be upset about Landyn cheating on her and then have no problem doing it to someone she was with for two years. Ugh, anyway. The plot again was decent, it was the execution of the book that lacked. I'd like to see what another writer could do with this same idea and what results would yield. This book reminded me a lot of the My Misery Muse series, of which I was also not a fan of the poor writing style.
I rate this book 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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