Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I saw this book free a few months ago and I passed it on by because the Vietnam era is one I don't care to read about or watch movies or TV shows about. But on a whim a few days ago I picked this one up after reading the sample trying to be open minded. The sample wasn't too bad and and made me want to know more so I ignored the reviews because it was free. DON'T be like me because this has a price now. ---:> NOTE: a LOT of the previous first reviews are without a doubt fake reviews. 1. They're all extremely short and the review just have one review to their name on Amazon...for THIS book. 2. They all came in within days of the book's publishing date. Randomly that many people automatically loved this book? Yet give no real explanation as to why? Friends and/or family of the author or even the author herself? Wouldn't surprise me or I think yes! 3. If they have a history, they're a Harriet Klausner type of review who mysteriously finds EVERYTHING they read tip, top wonderful. No one loves everything they read or buy to warrant a 5 star review. Short, 5 star reviews just saying it's great but giving no real substance as to why and no history to back up that they're a valid reviewer, product buying, customer is a dead giveaway. Shame! It started good but it took me awhile to read it. I flip through books pretty fast but I chalked it up to the subject matter and the setting up of the story and me trying to focus. It's not worth your time. SO much potential here but it gets lost and I'm quite sure Ms. Kellogg lost her road map around 20%. Matt Foster returns home from Vietnam after being a POW for 6 years. He's scarred, burned and haunted. On top of that he looks like a completely different man. Before Vietnam he was a 22 year old college graduate and newly married guy with a boyish face that looked all of 17. Now he's 29, hair littered with gray, 30 pounds underweight and looks all of 45. After realizing he has no memory of his previous life except some VIVID memories of a lot of sex, Matt prepares to start his life over. That is until his doctors inform him that he has a wife in Pennsylvania. Matt's prepared to just forget about her since he can't remember her but his doctors convince him to go see her in hopes that she'll jog his memory since all he knows is her name. Abby. He sees her from afar but is still prepared to walk away until he sees her greeting a 6 year old little boy from the school bus. Walk away from his wife he can do but not his child. Sounds really good right? It had me sold and read to curl up and read this. THEN the stupid starts. Matt calls himself Mac. This was ridiculous and confusing even for the freaking author who had SO many typos where she meant Mac clear as day but wrote Matt. So Matt/Mac devises a plan to infiltrate Abby's life to see if he can fall in love with her and if she loves him or the guy he use to be. But Abby's moved on. She's engaged to a pudgy, stick in the mud dentist who could give 2 craps about Abby's child. He only want Abby for sex. Abby's been celibate since her husband left because the last time she had sex she got knocked up at just turned 18. Plus she really loved Matt so sex had no meaning if it wasn't him. But he pompous boyfriend Robert convinces and manipulates and whines his way into getting her to marry him so he can have sex with her. He's pushy about sex and gives her an ultimatum: he'll stop whining about sex if she marries him in 6 weeks. Yet while she's planning her wedding, Matt/Mac is getting closer doing odd jobs around her house and being a father figure to his son. Sure, Abby knows Mac is harmless and just needing some compassion but she's ridiculously naive. And Mac is just SO FREAKING horny. For the longest time he's still playing the Mac role yet they're getting closer. He STILL hasn't revealed he's her husband. He's kissing her neck and all "damn you smell so good" and her panties are getting more drenched than the passengers of the Maid of the Mist at Niagara. I'm sorry but this book officially went down the drain for me when they started cozying up to each other she's she's giving up her neck and collarbones for his tongue and lips while he's still deceiving her. After awhile the situations just got ridiculous because Matt's still being deceptive yet getting closer and closer. There's absolutely NO reason whatsoever for him to still be hiding his identify at 50% yet this story is still at square one at the halfway mark. Good grief! It doesn't feel like a 239 page book. This is War and Peace because the storyline goes NO WHERE. Quite frankly, I got plum P the F off when they started having making out every 7 pages. He's LYING to her. She's thinking she's touching him and being WAY too intimate with this stranger she doesn't know from a hole in the wall. She thinks he's this 40 something, sweet and damaged war vet with a heart of gold and lover of children when she's really screwing her HUSBAND. That's wrong! Dead wrong and an AWFUL plot point. I WANTED to like this a lot. It was good for a awhile the I realized not much had happened between 0% to 50%. Pass this one on by like scenery. If the setting isn't your thing go with your instinct and DON'T pick this up. It's not worth your time unless you like slow moving stories.