REVIEW. Real by Katy Evans

You know you're not really feeling a book when you skim through the majority of it.

I came to this book straight after reading a different one that pretty much blew my mind. Everybody knows when you read an outstanding book, it's hard to find something just as great to follow. So, that may be the reason for me not liking this so much, or could be that the writing and story just didn't work for me. Maybe a mixture of all three.. I'm not sure.

Real has two main characters; Remington and Brooke. I kept on reading that Rem/Remy was so swoonworthy and that I'd fall head over in love with him. Well, um, I must have been reading about a different Remy because the Remy I met was nothing short of an a-hole. I am all for an alpha male who is bossy and possessive, that's great, but they have to at least have a likeable bone in their body. Remy just didn't seem to have that. He spoke awfully to Brooke at times, treated his team like dirt and was just generally a bit of a pig.

Brooke, she was okay. I didn't like her, I didn't dislike her, her presence in the book just didn't move me. Years before meeting Remy she had had her big Olympic dreams shattered, but she didn't let it consume her life. She moved on. Meeting Remy and becoming a part of his fighting team helped her to be a new Brooke.

"And I just don't know what I'm going to do, but I want to make him mine more than i've ever wanted anything. Even the Olympics."

Brooke and Remy's relationship. I didn't really believe in it at all. It started off slow and strictly as colleagues but you knew from the off that there was serious sexual tension there. I just didn't feel their relationship though, I know the book is called Real but nothing about their relationship felt real to me.

So really.. overall this wasn't that much of an enjoyable read for me. If it wasn't for my silly book OCD I would have dnf'ed this right near the beginning. Maybe it was just a case of reading it at the wrong time, or simply because I didn't like it, I'll never know.