| Title: | Until My Heart Stops | |
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| Author: | Mycah Edwards | |
| Publisher | B. Love Publications | |
| Publication Date: | January 28, 2019 | |
| Publisher's Description | "I never needed to be rich. I only needed to be happy." - Kenzino Kennedy Professional athlete, Kenzino Kennedy, had everything, then he had nothing. A trip to his grandmother's hometown provides him with the freedom he needs to answer a simple question - if he strips himself of his ego, who will he be? Park Carr was the small-town girl who saw life through a kaleidoscope. Everything was beautiful until it wasn't. Despite having her heart broken, she's determined to keep herself open to love, but there's just one problem: she's the victim of a vicious rumor that keeps her holed up at home. He's a retired NFL player with a desire to dance. She's newly unemployed but hopeful. Together, they have the opportunity to put love to the test so long as they trust their hearts long enough to see that love can be unconditional when it's done right. However, when done wrong, the damage can be just as fatal as when the heart stops. |
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| My rating: | **.5 | |
This book could have been so much better. I definitely think that Mycah Edwards is an engaging writer, which is why I’m sad that this book did not work for me. Park, the female protagonist, was disappointing. The betrayal she experienced at the novel’s outset was not her fault, but the way that she related to the people in her life certainly was. She was overly trusting, naive, gullible, martyrish and every other unflattering adjective for a person who lacks the will or ability to think critically about her life and the people in it. The only one of her family members worth anything at all was her niece, yet Park kept sticking her neck out for her other relatives to swing their axes at. Their terrible behavior was entirely on them, but they wouldn’t have been able to keep harming her if she hadn’t allowed them so many opportunities to do so.
Kenz, the novel’s male protagonist, was the worst. THE WORST. He was weak and, despite his wafer-thin veneer of religiosity, had no moral center. Although he lied to himself about his good intentions, he always collapsed at the first sign of opposition or temptation. The only people he was capable of saying “no” to were his grandmother and Park, who were also the only two people in his life who prioritized his happiness over their own. I want to say that Park deserved better, but considering what she was willing to accept from everyone else, what would that even look like for her?
Although this book depressed me because these people were failing so hard at life but thought they were winning, I was entertained enough to read about all of their shenanigans. This is actually how I felt about E’Bay (I KNOW) and Noble’s story by the same author: I didn’t like her characters, their decision-making processes, how the men were totally not about anything at all, and how the women were willing to accept nearly any level of disrespect, but I do find these books interesting. This is definitely a Kindle Unlimited special for me, because I would have been super disappointed to pay for this, but it wasn’t an entirely unpleasant way to pass a few hours.
