Vi Keeland - Belong to You

First of all: daaaamn the guy in the cover is freaking hot. I can't even see his whole face but he looks totally swoon-worthy, haha.

Anyways, Belong to You, the first in the Cole Series, was a very likable read. It was fast-paced, exciting, and the characters weren't too bad. However, at several points it felt like more should have been written into the story, because I felt like in the beginning it jumped right into Sydney and Jack's relationship with no build up, and Jack was a little creepy in the beginning too. If you place this in real life, I'd be pretty freaked out by Jack's possessiveness only 5 minutes after meeting him, not to mention his intense staring and instant violation of spacial boundaries. I'm going to spoil just a tiny bit of the book so you can see what I'm saying. 

In the beginning, when Jack and Syd first meet, Syd is shocked by Jack's green eyes and feels all attracted to him and whatnot. Then a couple hours later after meeting him, Syd is at the bar after a performance and he approaches her and just stands behind her like a creeper, not saying anything and invading her personal space and just staring down at her all stalkery in my opinion. But Syd seemed to love it so I was like meh, whatever, but I would have been like: *uncomfortable laugh* "Could you like, back off?". 

I did appreciate that they gave the relationship a couple months before saying I love you, because the whole "I love you after only one day" doesn't really work for me. 

Jack wasn't overly restraining either and didn't creepily track his girlfriend's every move like Christian did with Ana in FSOG.

All in all, I thought it was a fairly fast and light read. It could have had a more intriguing plot with more twists than just the (somewhat shallow) problems between Jack and Sydney as their relationship developed. I gave it 4 stars because 3 is too low in my opinion, but 3.75 would be more accurate. 

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Lena