Review: Something New

Something New by Megan Ryder
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

DNF at 33%

Anna Maria Costado is an actress, she is filmed screaming at a waitress and her career is about to implode. She returns to her home town in Texas, five years after she left, for a friend’s wedding and runs slap-bang into Wyatt Turner, the man she loved, a former footballer until an injury destroyed his career just as it started.

I lurve second-chance romances, sports-romances and wedding-based romances but this book left me cold. I think Megan Ryder was too busy trying to find a good reason why Anna and Wyatt did and said the things they did (eg Anna was screaming at the waitress because she has a deadly nut allergy and the food contained nuts) to actually make Anna and Wyatt likeable. Basically, in all their interactions with each other, and Anna's interactions with others, they were narcissistic, jumped to conclusions, didn't trust and made everything all about them.

I promised that I would read another two chapters before I bailed but in the end I could only manage one, it just carried on, Anna being bitchy to someone (for her own special reasons) and then Wyatt deciding he was the arbiter of what is and isn't acceptable for Anna to do and say. Then they bring it all back to their break-up and a big case of "No, I didn't - but you did!" backwards and forwards between them.

I disliked both characters and just didn't want to read anymore!

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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