Drache.... (Angelika) 's Reviews > Rootbound

** spoiler alert ** I loved Funny Feelings and had high hopes fir Rootbound, but....
Aaagggghh I'm quitting at 82%.
The first chapters were intriguing, but the further I got the messier the storyline evolved.
The romance between Tait and Henry (I loved him!) was the constant good and beautifully done part of the book and I would have loved to see how it played all out in the end, but I had so much issues with the rest of the book:
-Taits relationship with her estranged father was not comprehensible to me (no contact from age 7 to age 28, but it's all excused and explained so easily?! Tait even called him Dad after 2 weeks? Kissed him on the cheek? Was glad he explained that the issue had been his selfishness (wich I didn't get) and he didn't lay the blame on her mother?). The fact that Tait and Ava were misarable with their mother was never mentioned again?
-the fact that she didn't want money from her ex in the divorce although she had put 150.000 dollars from an inheritance in the purchase because she didn't need the money?? And 2 years later she is forced to take a job because otherwise she would go broke?
-the inheritance- part didn't get a real/satisfying explanation on page either, Tait just acknowlegded it and moved on,
-Tait and Ava had the best sisterly relationship we were told, but how both behaved trying to punish the other without talking to them, or the way they talked when they finally got around to it, was irrational.
-Tait had in the years since her divorce not been afraid to take what and with who she wanted (meaning one night stands) we were told, but when she had sex with Henry it was her first orgasm with another person since her marriage? How was this not an issue that none of her one night stands had satisfied her or was this just a case of bad editing? Did they forget they had mentioned the previous one night stands?
-I didn't buy at all how her father 's family hadn' t once tried to contact Tait from age 7 on (for 21 years) and now they were full of love for her, and after some few days she equally loved them back, without a discussion just some flimsy excuses on their side? Getting to an satisfying explanation now after 82% when Tait already feels she loves them would be anticlimactic at best.

I won't rate this one because I wouldn't know how (the romance part was so great, Henry was phantastic, but the rest was a mess).