Opposing Sides by CM Doporto

Opposing Sides by C.M. Doporto
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This particular title was free on Amazon. If I had paid for it, I would've asked for my money back.



Let's discuss this further in a breakdown.

The Good, Bad, and Ugly...

1) I can't for the life of me remember the lead girl's name. I can remember everyone else's (Delaney, Luke, Raven, Collin...) But her name escapes me. Which is never a good sign.

2) Sometimes characters are made "overly weak" so they can continuously rise in a series. That's what has happened here.

3) This book should've been YA-Teen. That's what it read like. And there is no shame in that. At all. Let me stress it again, no shame. Wrong category, wrong league to go up against. The bar is set so high, that when you throw something like this in there (something that borders a teen feel and NA) it's bound to get tossed in the middle somewhere.



4) Descriptions: Green eyes. That's not enough to make a lead male stand out to me. A scar on his cheek? Maybe a few earrings? I don't know. Maybe he wears a particular kind of shoes? Green shoes, ALL THE TIME. Raven and Collin weren't memorable.



5) The writing. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't fabulous either. (Again, should've been YA-Teen.) I struggled to get through a lot of the dialogue toward 63% and found myself skimming through the remainder of my kindle.

In conclusion: I don't really know what happened in this book. Um..I know Lexi (had to look it up) is getting married to Collin, and their parents have raised them to kind of be like the Duggers. But Lexi isn't happy because Collin wants to honor her by not having sex til the big day...And then Lexi starts tutoring Raven, the lead star of the football team. He's a manwhore, apparently. I didn't feel the connection between either man with Lexi. She had better chemistry with her brother and Delaney. (Sorry, I know that's kind weird...)

2 stars.

And onto the next book...



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