For Better, For Worse by Carole Matthews

This book choice came during a state of utter desperation. I was in the midst of doing finals and all I wanted to read was something predictable, fun, and romantic. So I popped open this book and began to dig in. From the very beginning I knew the main characters were going to end up together... sorry, SPOILER ALERT!!... but in general, most romantic comedies (or RomComs as some people like to call them) usually end up this way. So it wasn't the predictability of the text that was annoying, it was the fast way the author wrapped everything up in the end.
Too many times I have read books like this where 3/4 of the book is filled with great detail of scene and character interaction and then BAM! the ending sneaks up on you and you're left staring at the last sentence, saying to yourself, "Whaaaaat just happened?". This book, definitely had one of those moments without a doubt.
All that work that is put into the middle portion of the book is almost thrown away with a quick effort of conclusion. I almost have begun to believe that when books end in this way, that there is a lack of care of the ending and more for what happens before. But who wants to read a book with all this build up of the obvious and then is quickly let down by 1-2 pages of an ending?? NOT ME my friend.
Also, as a writer, I just don't understand how an author could possibly believe that a conclusion filled with love, romance, and familiarity among the two characters could logically transpire when they may have had 2 days worth of dialogue in between the beginning and end and then quickly reunite during the second to last chapter... I MEAN HELLO... buck up a little bit here. Be a little more caring about the ending of the book and stop focusing on the how so much. It's a disservice to the reader who has invested their time in the book and then has to settle for one chapter worth of an ending. Basically, it's not fair.
I wouldn't, however, now conclude that For Better, For Worse was a horrible book to read, but when I can immediatly pick up another book--I'm talking 30 minutes within finishing the last--and contently read along, SOMETHING from the previous book left me, as a reader, unsatisfied. So thus, being unsatisfied, just like when you eat a crappy meal, you look for the next best thing to fill that void.
Read For Better, For Worse... make you're own opinion about it!