Review: 99 Percent Mine

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Oh this novel...

I've had so many hopes dashed by this novel. By this author.

There had been so many good things to be appreciated about this novel, but so, so many bad things overruled this novel's positive view.

Let me explain.

The cover - So darn quirky, and cute. Like there's nothing hiding what is obvious in the summary and the cover itself. It immediately sets the dynamic between the two. So yeah. Loved the cover.

The Summary - "Darcy Barrett found her dream man at age eight - ever since, she's had to learn to settle for good enough. Having conducted a global survey of men, she can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska, whose only flaw is that he's her twin brother's best friend - oh, and that 99 percent of the time, he hasn't seemed interested in her.

When Darcy and Jamie inherit a tumble-down cottage from their grandmother, they're left with strict instructions to bring it back to its former glory and sell the property. Darcy plans to be in an aisle seat halfway across the ocean as soon as the renovations start, but before she can cut and run, she finds a familiar face on her porch: house-flipper extraordinaire Tom's arrived, he's bearing power tools, and he's single for the first time in almost a decade.

Suddenly Darcy's considering sticking around - just to make sure her twin doesn't ruin the cottage's inherent magic with his penchant for chrome. She's definitely not staying because of her new business partner's tight t-shirts. But sparks start to fly - and not just because of the faulty wiring. Soon, a one percent chance with Tom is no longer enough. This time around, Darcy's switching things up. She's going to make Tom Valeska 99 percent hers."

Well that's the summary. Sounds pretty darn interesting. So hence why the stars.

The romance - Not really bad, pretty steamy and swoon-worthy in some cases. Hence the given stars.

But then the real problem happened.

The characters - Darcy is just too childish and too cartoonish for me to care. Being a feminist, and then becoming a wild savage animal, and then resonating to a teenager, she takes on so many roles which leaves my mind spinning out of control and wondering what happened as the progress was made. Tom. Poor Tom. I wonder why she was the one for him. Seriously she was SO not for him, I don't know how the author managed to make this ridiculous combination. I fail to get it. I mean he's this nice, polite, caring little thing and then...there's her. Gah. And then her brother. The pompous, stuck-up and blackmailer-like brother. Geez. I really did not see any improvement in him throughout most of the novel, and he was barely there. Why was he even included?

Why are there so many holes in character development in general? I fail to understand.

As for the ending - I didn't really stick it out long enough to care. So no comment.

Anyway this was my first novel by this author, so not the first best impression. But I am still willing to try her debut novel - The Hating Game - to give her an even shot as all my friends raved about her.

So yeah, overall this is not a couple I vote for.

Until the next read,

TMR

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