Brown-Eyed Girl

Title: Brown-Eyed Girl

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Romance

Time: did not finish 

First of all, I would like to say that I love, love, love Lisa Kleypas.  She is one of the few authors that I collect the “real” books of.  She is the author that I re-read books of.  Some of her books I have re-read at like 5 to 7 times!  Yes, she is that good.  When she switched to Contemporary Romance from Historical Romance, I would say that I would prefer her earlier historical romance books.  But her Contemporary Romances were still very good.  I have read all her books.  So I am now constantly checking if she has published any new books.   

So I “ran out of books to read” (I usually find like 10-15 books then read them all and when I’m done with them or don’t feel like reading the ones left, I would then look for a new set of 10-15 books to blow through) so I was looking for new set to read when I discovered that Lisa Kleypas wrote a new book.  It felt like a delightful surprise.  You know that feeling you get when you “discover “money on the pockets of you jeans you haven’t worn for a while.  This was it. 

As I started reading Brown-Eyed Girl, I was waiting for the “hook”.  You know that part of the book where the author starts to draw you into that new world?  Well, as a progressed, it never came.  In fact, it was worse than no hook.. it was awful!  But it cannot be.. this is Lisa Kleypas!  So I trudged on.. and on.. but there was no way around it.  It really was awful.  I even thought that maybe I got the wrong ebook by mistake.  So I decided to search the net to see what the others thought of the book.. and I wasn’t imagining it.  the consensus was, it sucked. 

After reading the bad reviews, I decided to march on.  It’s Lisa Kleypas, it couldn’t be that bad, could it?  But try as I might, I just couldn’t do it.  I didn’t finish the book.  The characters were just soo annoying and the storyline dragged on.  But the book might say Lisa Kleypas but this was not a Lisa Kleypas book.  I truly hope this was a one-off kinda thing because, as I’ve said, I really, really love Lisa Kleypas.  With Lilian Jackson Braun and Jackie Collins passing away, I have fewer authors left who I collect books of.