Review: Love Surfaced by Michelle Lynn

Published: March 2015

Pages: 292

Synopsis: “The equations are simple.

Piper Ashby + Brad Ashby = Twin Siblings

Brad Ashby + Tanner McCain = Best Friends

Piper Ashby + Tanner McCain = Off limits

Tanner and I abided by the rules. We stayed on our designated sides of the relationship circle.

Ignoring swarming butterflies.

Brushing off skipped heartbeats.

Settling on lingering stares.

Here’s the secret … a hand extended over that invisible line once, exponentially changing the equation. I was convinced we could make our relationship work until Tanner broke the trust he embedded in me from the age of seven.

One deceit of mega proportions and the relationship we built for that short month vanished. I swore never to speak to him again and it’s worked. Until now—two years later, when my brother’s wedding places me face-to-face with the best man—Tanner McCain.

Leaving one equation to be solved. Can love surface twice?!

Rating: *

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Love Surfaced wasn’t my usual kind of read, far too mushy for my liking but I thought I would give it a go. If there is ever an example of why you should never ever step out of your comfort zone then this was it!

Love Surfaced was JAM FULL of teenage angst, which isn’t usually for a problem for someone like me who reads a lot of YA fiction. But in this case, it was a major problem. The opening chapters of the book at the college party were, I felt, an accurate reflection of that age group but I didn’t feel the characters progressed past this mentality or go out of the teenage angst phase.

I found the lack of plot infuriating. There didn’t seem to be anything driving the plot forward and all the descriptions were glossed over and rushed. The exception to this were the sex scenes which were written in a high level of detail, which made them stand out amongst the rest of the novel and gave the impression that the sex scenes were written first and the rest of the story was made to fit around them.

Very disappointing, but I am quietly confident that fans of romantic fiction and dare I say 50 Shades of Grey might enjoy this…