THOUGHTLESS by S.C. Stephens

Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

NetGalley free book review.

I read a couple of reviews on Amazon and was waffling about buying this book before noticing that it was something I could read for free though my NetGalley account. One of the major criticisms I saw was that Kiera was sleeping with two men and drastically stringing them along. My first thought was how bad could it be. My second thought was that things happen in relationships that make them complicated and hard to make the proper choices, but OMG this was ridiculous. This isn't to say I didn't like the book. I liked it and could have liked it more if it weren't for the constant going back and forth by Kiera.

In some ways I felt like the author was trying to make the book as long as possible. But I have to say it drove me nuts eventually. I can understand Kiera feeling like Denny was safe. I can understand the first and even the second slip up with Kellan, to some extent. But once she knew how he felt about her and knew what she was going to potentially do to Denny, she needed to pull up her big girl panties and sit them down and talk. Them them both what was going on in her head and how confused she was. Her actions could only lead to destruction, which it did.

Denny was a little too peripheral of a character for me. I wanted to know more about him other than his drive towards his career and his seemingly unaware love for Kiera. How all her moods didn't alert him to what was going on is beyond me, which he explains later that he kind of knew something was going on with her, but he just let things go until things were out of control.

I don't have an issue with the cheating as some of the other reviewers I've read had. I believe that things happen and that you can't always control how you feel about someone. You can control how your act and be and adult and make sure you are free and clear before you act on those feelings, but I'm not nieve enough to believe that's how most people act.

But, I have to say I did like it. I was on the edge of my seat trying to figure out what Kiera would do, when Denny would figure it all out, what Kellan would ultimately do. Based on how the author wrote Kellan, it wouldn't have even been a hard decision for me. I would have immediately been with Kellan. Although I thought Denny was sweet, he took their relationship for granted. He didn't think he had to work at it. I do believe that Kiera over reacted to Denny getting and taking the job in Arizona, but since she had moved from Ohio to Seattle to be with him, he should have taken her into consideration and discussed it with her before making that decision.

I believe that Denny's inability to consider Kiera in his major decisions was the start of their problems. Kiera being young and klinging to the first person she was in love with is the other half of their problem.

Good book, read the first couple chapters of EFFORTLESS, but I'm not sure I want to spend the money reading the sequel if it's more of the same filler of either or both of them not knowing what they want and how to communicate. Will consider.

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