A Billion Reasons Why by Kristin Billerbeck is a romance novel following the rekindled love between Katie McKenna, teacher and Luc DeForges, millionaire. He was her first love but she decided to move on and move away. She is engaged to an everyman character named Dexter. The story finds her in New Orleans to sing for her childhood friend's wedding, and falling back in love with Luc.I’m sorry to say that while I was initially excited to read this romance novel, I found this book disappointing and boring. The characters where un-endearing and I couldn’t find a hook to make me care about them, their lives, or their love. It was all but impossible to get invested in the story or the characters plights. Neither the characters, nor the plot had much depth or quality. The back story was lackluster at best.
Reading the book felt like I was reviewing a first draft and not a completed, published work. “He’s a handsome billionaire. She’s not impressed.” Nor was I.
(Thank you to Thomas Nelson for providing me a copy of this book to read and review. I'm a member of Thomas Nelson's BookSneeze program.)
