Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (March 28, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739324934
ISBN-13: 978-0739324936
Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 1 x 5 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
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I find myself in a hit-and-miss position when it comes to Sandra Brown romance novels. Her writing style changes far too often for my liking and some times her stories just make no sense. In A Class By Itself didn't necessarily make zero sense, it was just a little bit ridiculous.The dialogue was hard to get into. One minute, they were speaking as if they were modernized characters (which they should be considering its a present-day novel) and then the next, they were speaking like prim and proper socialites. Dani's speaking voice makes sense considering her up-bringing, but Logan's, not so much. When I read dialogues, unless there is a solid reason for propriety shifts, I think it needs to have a casual, informal flow. But, I digress. That's just a preference thing.What I did have an issue with was the relationship between Logan and Dani. Logan is an insecure baby who constantly lives in the past and throws Dani's class back in her face. The way he continued to act as though they were married was kind of creepy, not to mention the fact that he sneaked into her bedroom while she was sleeping and copped a cheap feel. And then there is the issue of him nearly raping her after the newspaper article came out. There is absolutely no excuse for what he did and Dani nearly immediately dismissed his actions and justified them because "he was angry and needed an outlet for his anger." Yeah, he stopped, but does that really matter? The intention was there, no matter how much Dani protests that he wouldn't have gone through with it. Any sympathy Brown may have built up for this man when Dani left a second time was completely demolished with that scene.That seems to be a recurring theme for her--the man pushes himself onto the heroine until he convinces her that she wants it.
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