Review: Two Week Trial by Missy Jane.

Rowena’s review of Two Week Trial by Missy Jane.

Hi. My name is Mari. I’m of average height, average weight, average looks and I hold an average position at Hardy’s All Goods, my personal version of retail hell. To sum up, I’m nothing special. So why has Devon Campbell, the city’s Most Eligible Bachelor—and my unrequited high-school crush—suddenly crashed back into my life, claiming I’m the one who got away? Devon can’t possibly want to keep me for the long haul, right? My screwed-up past is enough to make anyone run screaming in the opposite direction. Still, he’s determined I give him a chance…and I’d be crazy to turn down his offer of a two-week trial.

The good thing about these stories from Ellora’s Cave are that they’re such short stories that you can zip right through them. The problem with them? I always walk away from each story that I read, wanting more.

This story is about an average, everyday woman named Marisela who works in retail. She graduated from high school a while ago and she’s still having fantasies about a boy from high school named Devon Campbell. One random day out of the ordinary, the boy of her dreams (literally) comes into her store and asks for her help…and then he asks her to dinner.

Of course she accepts and then her life is changed dramatically. Devon Campbell steps out of her dreams and into her life and her life is thrown for a loop. Mari knows that she’s nothing extraordinary, she wasn’t that popular in high school and she’s a simple woman, living a simple life and she’s okay with that. But when Devon Campbell, her high school big man on campus comes back into her life and wants to take her to dinner and then later on, wants a chance to prove to her that he wants something lasting with her and then goes about trying to prove to her that he means what he says…it’s cute.

He’s that Prince Charming coming through to sweep her off her feet and you can see the struggle it takes for her to actually come to believing everything that he has to say.

This story actually started out pretty good. It held a lot of promise but over the course of the book, I was less and less interested in what came next. I love the whole Prince Charming theme but Devon was too effing perfect. He went out of his way to make Mari feel special and he was just …too good. Too perfect. I couldn’t connect with Mari to save my life. I should have been able to but she never felt, real to me.

It didn’t take me long at all to read this story but after I finished reading the book, I wasn’t really satisfied. The romance to me, felt rushed and what could have been a fantastic story, fell flat for me and though it had its moments, this book just wasn’t for me.

Grade: 2.75 out of 5

This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.

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