The Line Between: Line Between, Book 1, by Tamsyn Bester
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There's a fine line between love and hate, so fine that you don't know you've lost balance until it's too late. Kennedy is not sure exactly when she lost her balance. All she knows is that he was to blame. Dane Winters. The boy who'd spent most of his life hating her for reasons she never understood.
It was no secret that Dane hated Kennedy, but only he knew why. She was off-limits. And then their separate worlds collided with one tragedy. It wasn't her fault, he knew that, but he wanted her to hurt the way he did, and he needed someone to blame.
She was an easy target. Kennedy Monroe. The girl he'd picked on all their lives. And the woman he barely tolerated. Until the line between love and hate was no longer visible....
Contains mature themes.
The Line Between: Line Between, Book 1, by Tamsyn Bester - Amazon Sales Rank: #67302 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-05-20
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 585 minutes
The Line Between: Line Between, Book 1, by Tamsyn Bester
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124 of 137 people found the following review helpful. Wasn't for me... By Lady Vigilante (Feifei) I stopped reading this book at the 91% mark. I know what you’re thinking: 1) why am I rating a DNF (did-not-finish) but more importantly, 2) why did I not finish the book when I only have 9% left. Just hear me out okay?I have finally reached my limits with this book. Judging from the high ratings from most readers though, I’m in the minority who feels this way, so before I even say anything else, please don’t let my upcoming negative thoughts about this book discourage you from reading it if you were interested before.With that being said, this book didn’t work for me. Actually, that is really putting it mildly. I had so many problems with the characters, with the storyline, with the romance, with everything I don’t even know where to begin.Going into this book, I was pretty sure it’d be a winner for several reasons: I’ve read and enjoyed a book from this author in the past so I shouldn’t have difficulties with her writing style, the love/hate dynamic is something I was in the mood for and I was ready for the angst to hit me hard, and I was really in the mood for a NA read. But from the very beginning, I started to struggle with the story. I’ll just walk you through my thought process all the way up to the 91% mark where I just could NOT go on.My first issue was that this book is way too similar to Bully by Penelope Douglas. Having re-read Bully about 2 months ago, there were similarities that stood out so vividly I actually went back to Bully to re-read some parts to compare and the essence of some scenes were virtually identical. I’m not insinuating anything here though. Every book with a similar premise is going to have some overlap – it just can’t be helped. However, the following parallels I couldn’t get over and when I read them, I was instantly reminded of Bully and that just cut a lot of my connection to this particular book.1. Dane has a best friend named Reid who’s a Madoc 2.0. They both have lighter personalities and are a source of comic relief in tense situations.2. Kennedy leaves town only to return as a tough as nails girl. Tate leaves her town only to return as a tough as nails girl. Kennedy meets her bully Dane again at a party. Tate meets her bully Jared again at a party.There were other little things like how in both books, the heroine stomped over to the hero’s party because the music was too loud and how in both books the hero and heroine were neighbors etc…Once again, it may just be me being too picky but because Bully’s story is fresh in my mind, I really did feel like I was reading another version of it, at least in the beginning.By then, another issue came up – forget the jerk hero, I didn’t even like the heroine. In the beginning, I truly sympathized for her because of the hero’s cruel antics that tortured her, but when the story is fast-forwarded to present day and she supposedly has grown a backbone, I was less than impressed with her character. It seemed like on every other page, she either giggled, stammered, or cried. Not to mention she was extremely clumsy and fell twice, both times effectively grabbing the hero’s attention that way. I mean…couldn’t there be something different? And then there was one scene (the one with the flowers) where she was going to get payback on the hero and it was so.very.dramatic. Like over the top dramatic and my eyes couldn’t stop rolling. It’s safe to say I wasn’t head over heels for this heroine.By this time, the hero and heroine are already sleeping with each other, leaving me to wonder what the heck happened to the love/hate dynamic. You know, the kind that's ‘I–hate-you-but-I-can’t-keep-my-hands-off-of-you-either’ type of relationship. There was no build up: it went from rude remarks to instant banging. Dane got jealous from the very beginning and Kennedy couldn’t stop thinking about how hot Dane was from the start either. Thus, the whole enemies to lovers premise wasn’t really strong and the lack of buildup was disappointing.Another thing that bothered me was the focus on all the side character drama! It’s great to have a strong side character cast and in this book that was the case, but there was too much focus on Dane’s best friend, Kennedy’s two best friends, guys on the football team, both of their siblings, etc…and not enough focus on Dane and Kennedy.And then, there was a little issue I had with the timeline of the story. It was so choppy! I go from the beginning (3 years into the past), then the present, and then from there, every other chapter seemed to do a small time jump ranging from a few weeks to months. For example, the first time Kennedy and her best friend meet their new roommate before college starts, right after that chapter it’s already a month later and fast forward to when all three become best friends already and go out to celebrate Kennedy’s birthday. I want the details too – what happened in that time lapse? What happened in the other time lapses? This kind of timeline made events seem so random and disrupt the flow of the story.And here we are, at the dreaded 91% mark. I honestly don’t know what else to say about this scene other than it seriously pissed me off, it made me throw my iPad at the wall, and it made me feel stabby for hours. But most importantly, it made me believe that there was NOTHING redeeming about the hero. At this far in the book, the hero and heroine aren’t even together. What does that say about the romance and their relationship? Their messes are far from sorted out and then they get into this fight where the hero says:“You don’t get to cry. It should have been you in that car, not Jewel [hero’s sister]. Your brother should have taken your life with his, and not hers.”Seriously. How in the world do you move on from something so hurtful?For him to say this it would take a lot – A LOT – of groveling and such to make it up to the heroine (and me, the reader!!!) but if you noticed, this is at the 91% mark. I don’t even need to read the last 9% of the book to know that it’ll be rushed to tie up all the loose ends and give these characters a happy ending, especially since they weren’t even a couple at this point. So I thought to myself – why bother continuing? It’s obvious that the last 9% isn’t going to change my opinion for the rest of the book. My reading time is already limited and I can’t afford to waste any more. One thing this book did accomplish was make me so angry I can’t even think about reading another book, at least for a few hours or so. As I will never discourage anyone from reading a book, I’m going to end with READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!**An advanced copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review**
63 of 71 people found the following review helpful. DISAPPOINTED. Spinless female lead and douchebag male lead. *SPOILERS* By Miss Opinionated I'm really annoyed because I wrote a review already and somehow it was taken down. But I feel like someone needs to let other readers know that this book isn't worth the time. I originally started off liking this book, the beginning was good and it showed promise. I thought it was a little reminiscent of The Bully series by Penelope Douglas but then I was like, hey, you know what, I'll give it a try anyway, hopefully it will be good. Sadly, it wasn't. It was almost a carbon copy of that book, but worse.Nothing, and I repeat NOTHING, gets on my nerves more, than a weak, spineless female lead. Throughout the entire book, and for the better part of Kennedy's life, Dane is nothing but vicious and horrible to her. This is not foreplay, it is not harmless flirting, it is BULLYING of the worst kind. He is unnecessarily cruel to her. And it takes her all of two seconds to sleep with Dane, without so much as an apology because "he's so hot". No. Just NO. I can't stand females who think this is ok?! Let a man treat you like crap, let him walk all over you and then fall into bed with him because you just can't help it?? Where's the self respect?? I don't care if he is Adonis himself, if a man psychologically tortured me for YEARS then I would not just sleep with him because I couldn't help myself. My vagina does not rule me and the decisions that I make. Ugh.Dane- was the worst kind of male lead. Sure, you warm up to him a little throughout the book, but after the 80% mark, I knew it was the point of no return. I closed down the book on my kindle and refunded it. It was that bad. If there is one thing I do not want to read in my romance book, it's my H telling my h that he wishes she were dead, NOT only once, but reiterating it AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN. How dare he?! I don't care how much he is hurting, how upset he is, I don't care that he said he was sorry. He could have given birth to baby Jesus himself right now and I wouldn't have cared. He crossed the line and in my eyes, there was no room for redemption from his character.The supporting characters were ok, but not memorable. I thought it was pointless having most of them in there and thought the author only put them in there as an afterthought so that she could continue writing books in this series. There was no point in having Ashley in there, she is barely there the whole book, Beau- popped in at the last minute, Chase- barely see him, he's really only there to give Dane competition for a whole of 2 seconds and Grady, the stereotypical, if badly written, gay best friend.This book showed promise, but unfortunately fell flat for me. I have a huge no go policy on weak whiney female leads and douchebag male leads and that's what you get here. A h who let's the H treat her like complete and utter crap but let's him and sleeps with him anyway. Not worth the time frankly
20 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Get an E-D-I-T-O-R By Amazon Customer this story started out okay, despite the terrible grammar (someone please get this author a dictionary and a Harper's Handbook). The conflict was believable and the characters were sympathetic, despite Dane being such a jerk. But the resolution was completely unbelievable, especially after Dane telling Kennedy he wished she were dead. There were far too many holes in the plot, such as Kennedy being in the water for three hours...in December...while a passerby did nothing but wait that entire three hours for an ambulance.This author needs to hire an editor, PRONTO. someone who can not only enforce the use of appropriate vocabulary and slang, as well as punctuation and sentence structure, but who can also be trusted to tell the author when they are being just ridiculous. Oh, and someone who will also bar the use of the apistrophe entirely without his or her consent. It's not that hard...apostrophe for posessive, no apostrophe for plural. This author even used an apostrophe in the spelling of the hero's last name, Winters, for Chrissake ("Winter's"....really?).I would read a future offering by this author, but only to the point of the first ridiculous line in the book. (Such as, "There was a shadow, moving across the floor, and when the figure appeared in the living room I lifted the bat. 'Whoever you are, you have five minutes to leave before I start swinging.'" Who gives an intruder five MINUTES to leave? Next time I see something ridiculous like this, I'm done with this author.
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