Shelly Crane you’re my new favorite author.First touch and dang soul mate ahh this is so romantic. Significance and Accordance I read those two so far and they sooooooooo gooooood. I feel like the actual writing will only get better as Crane continues to write. The plot doesn't flow smoothly, some of the events are awkwardly placed, but the characters are wonderful and the basic plot is very entertaining and original enough. Crane has a great gift for story telling but the actual writing needs some serious attention. In spit of all of my criticism I am definitely going to read the next installment of this series and I really did like it. I understand that nearly every author has 'something to say' in their work, but it was a little too soap-boxy. The author's agenda comes through in parts of the book at times too. Both characters are totally insecure, but I guess that's better than the female being a total insecure mess all by her poor little ole' self. It was also extremely overboard with the 'I Love You's' and reassurances. Like, at times, I couldn't exactly make out that the character was supposed to have said. It also had a highly annoying amount of typographical errors. But I still highly doubt it's ever going to make my feminist side feel all warm and fuzzy. But then, I could see how in the plot that was one of the 'changes' that might occur.

Actually, it seemed a lot oppressive towards women at times.

I think part of the reason I am a little conflicted about it is that it seemed a little oppressive towards women, bordering on misogynistic at times. I keep waffling on that so I gave it 4 because I like to give the benefit of the doubt and I DO feel like the series has some merit. Maybe it's only a 2 or 3 star book for me. It moved kind of slow but I was really excited about it while I was reading. I stayed up entirely too late reading it.

Undeniably chosen shelly crane