Review

This book is a good example of why authors should take more time with their writing. Jewel E. Ann was an one-click author for me but I feel like this author is only writing to put out books now. There is juts no heart in her stories anymore. They lack depth and emotional build-up.

“Listen, I’m not okay with how you tried to decimate our book club tonight. After just eight chapters, your negative and speculative views of the book were awkward and insulting.” He squints, parting his lips a fraction. “O—kay. I offended you?” I shake my head, scrunching up my face. “No. Of course not. Other people are enjoying the story. So when you’re so critical of the book, they feel judged.” “Judged how?” He slides his hands into his front pockets. “Like you think they don’t have good taste in books. When, after tonight, I think you’re the one who doesn’t know a good story when it’s right in front of your face.” “Whoa …” He steps backward as if I gave him an invisible shove. “It’s just an opinion about a book. I’m not judging anyone. Diversity is beautiful. If everyone had the same taste, life would be boring.”

Also, let’s take a minute to dwell on this. I just could NOT get past Anna’s downright annoying personality. She needs to grow-up and take her rose-coloured glasses off and just being an adult for a minute there. People are entitled to have their own opinions. We are all different as person, people have different personalities, different culture, grew up in different homes, so of course they will have different personal preferences and THAT has NOTHING to do with attacking you as a person at all. It is JUST an opinion. We live in a world full of diversity so we won’t see things in the same way. And guess what Anna, it is okay. Don’t take things personally. Specially about reading.

“Books aren’t life. People use them to escape life, learn things that will help them achieve success, or find new ways to cope with life. Life is what happens outside the bound story. Life isn’t the letters on the page; it’s what inspires those words.”

Blurb

Do books have souls?

Anna Black has the perfect novel choice for her book club. She also has a sexy new neighbor who jumps at the opportunity to join fellow bookworms in discussing her pick for their summer read.

It’s lust at first sight and the marriage of two literary souls.

The charismatic owner of a new T-shirt store in Des Moines’s East Village, Eric Steinmann, has a confident air and an irresistible “mating dance.” He’s almost perfect … until he says the wrong word.

Will Anna and Eric write their own story? Or will their chemistry die when fiction turns into reality?

**Right Guy, Wrong Word was originally written as a short story, The Last Person. It’s been revised with significant changes to the original content and extended into a full-length novel.