Posted by Jess
Release Date: June 11th, 2011
Finished Date: June 13th, 2012
Publishers: Self-Published
Source: Bought
Format: eBook
Pages: 546
For almost two years now, Kiera's boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she's ever wanted: loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. When they head off to a new city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. Then an unforeseen obligation forces the happy couple apart.
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Feeling lonely, confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera
turns to an unexpected source – a local rock star named Kellan Kyle. At first,
he's purely a friend that she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does
their relationship. And then one night everything changes...and none of them
will ever be the same.
The Review: “Dude, he's Australian...not a pirate.”
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I was extremely hesitant about whether I liked it. It turns
out...it was just okay to me. A lot of people had raved about it, and I was
anxious to read it. And when I finally read it, I didn't enjoy it as much as I
thought I would. Here's why: the big factor is Kiera, she's annoyed me to no
end. She's stupid, naive and ironically... extremely thoughtless as to how her
actions affected others around her. I couldn't like her, and she has absolutely
no redeeming qualities what so ever.
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Thoughtless goes on for a good 546 pages, it's 546 pages of
Kiera moaning, Kiera bed hopping thinking it's going to be okay to juggle two
guys. It's not right Kiera. You cheated on your boyfriend with his best friend.
You deserve neither of the boys. I liked Kellan...a lot. Sure he was the one
that Kiera cheated with but unlike Kiera Kellan has redeeming qualities, he
tried to stop it, he even tried to leave but because Kiera is incredible
SELFISH she wouldn't let him. In the end, I wanted Kiera to just end up unhappy
and alone, and I hate it when I hate the protagonist.
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The story in general was good, it had the potential to be
great but when you can't stand the protagonist the book just seems endless and
long...I slugged through it. I found myself liking the secondary characters a
lot more that includes Kiera's boyfriend Denny. As I said the story was good it
would have been better if Kiera hadn't been so infuriating. I would have
enjoyed it a lot more I believe. My 3 stars are for Kellan, Denny and Griffin.
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I guess this isn't much of a review as more of a rant. But
Stephans does have a good way of story telling, the story was witty in places,
I can't deny that Kiera and Kellan had chemistry, but I would have been much
happier if this story remained as it was with Kiera ending up alone with
neither of the boys. I do believe that this story would have worked better with
alternate pov's, and I'm pretty sure I would have enjoyed it a lot more if that
had been the case. I also believe the story was too long for what it should
have been. It seemed to drag on for 200 extra pages that weren't needed at all.
A lot of the story could have been wrapped up in just over 300 pages, 500+
pages of utter useless story is a complete downer.
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Will I read the next one? Yes I will, I heard it's better
and Kiera gets less infuriating (I doubt it), but I'm not rushing for it. Kiera
annoyed me far too much to actually want to even consider getting inside her
head again any time soon.
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Overall, it wasn't a total disaster, but I just wish Kiera
hadn't been such a thoughtless, selfish, I-want-my-cake-and-eat-it-too cry
baby. I liked it enough to carry on with the series...one day.
