The blurb as seen on Goodreads:
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Publisher: NAL
352 Pages
What if a ‘Once in a Lifetime’ could happen twice?
Suffering from a past full of tragedy, Dahlia London's soul has been left completely shattered. Happily ever after is a far cry from reality in her world. But, when she is reconnected with her past, the bonds that form are irrefutable.
When River Wilde, lead singer of The Wilde Ones, comes back into Dahlia’s life, the intensity that fires their relationship combined with underlying feelings that have never died lead her to believe she has met her soulmate.
Struggling with confusion as old connections fade and new ones begin, Dahlia's grief begins to lift--but guilt remains. River wants to be the one to mend all that is torn within her.
But with a past that is never really gone, can their future survive?
Release Date: March 22, 2014Publisher: NAL
352 Pages
What if a ‘Once in a Lifetime’ could happen twice?
Suffering from a past full of tragedy, Dahlia London's soul has been left completely shattered. Happily ever after is a far cry from reality in her world. But, when she is reconnected with her past, the bonds that form are irrefutable.
When River Wilde, lead singer of The Wilde Ones, comes back into Dahlia’s life, the intensity that fires their relationship combined with underlying feelings that have never died lead her to believe she has met her soulmate.
Struggling with confusion as old connections fade and new ones begin, Dahlia's grief begins to lift--but guilt remains. River wants to be the one to mend all that is torn within her.
But with a past that is never really gone, can their future survive?
There are multiple things that turn me off when reading a
book:
1. Drama for the sake of drama
2. Pop culture references that add nothing to the story
3. Sex in place of plot
That’s just a few. And Connected
had all of the above. Dahlia London has lost everyone – her parents, her fiancé.
She’s given up. For two years she just exists, never leaves her house. Finally,
her best friend convinces her to go back to work and on her first assignment, Dahlia
meets someone she thought she’d never see again, rock star River Wilde. River hasn’t
stopped thinking about Dahlia since he met her that one night years ago. When
she stumbles back into his life he’s determined not to let her go.
What seemed to be a story about heartbreak, loss and the
pain of rebuilding your life after everything dies, turned into sex, sex,
drama, and more sex. While I felt for Dahlia, I also found her to be extremely naïve
and brainless. Her fiancé is acting really strange right before he is killed,
her house is ransacked but nothing was taken, she’s attacked after the killer
is released from jail – and this is all just coincidence??? How is she so
oblivious?
While I enjoyed River, I felt absolutely no connection
between the two other than physical. It doesn’t help that on every page there
had to be at least one mention of how attractive the other was. Real
connections are more than skin deep and I didn’t feel it with them. And the
sex, that seemed to be all they did. You can’t substitute plot with sex, it
doesn’t work. I skimmed half of the book because of this.
When they weren’t having sex, the author just threw out
random plot drama that was so overdone I found myself rolling my eyes. There
was also too much focus on materialistic things such as outfits and cars. It
made the characters, especially Dahlia seem shallow. And I get that River is a
musician, but the constant mentions of songs was a little too much. I felt like
I was being drowned in the playlist for no reason.
The ending was sort of a cliffhanger. I will be reading the
next one just to see how that cliffhanger plays out and also to find out if the
author is as predictable as I think she is. Hopefully, we get less of the materialistic
padding we got here and more focus on actual character development.
I received a copy of this novel from the publisher in exchange for a honest review.
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