Not So Perfect

Heather Tullis' A Perfect Fit (2014) is book one of her seven-book DiCarlo Brides series. Based on a good idea, the story ultimately falls flat due to immature writing.

The Good

The concept: At the reading of their billionaire father's will, two sisters born out of their father's marriage find out that four half-sisters exist. In addition, in order for them all to earn their inheritance, all six have to live together while they launch their late father's new resort. Through that journey, they also eventually meet each of the men their father had identified as their ideal match. To add another layer of complication, sinister figures attempt to destroy the empire the sisters are working to maintain.

A Perfect Fit is Cami's story. She is the eldest daughter, the product of her parents' marriage who supposedly struggles the most coping with her father's duplicity.

The Bad

The execution, which is to say, the writing, the writing, the writing! Tullis is no storyteller (yet) and is in the seedling (not even budding) stage of her writing career: She has ideas but does not yet know to string them cohesively to develop a story. There's no true development of two key elements: characterization and plot. What we have is a series of characters, scenes, and dialogue of no real substance.

The Ugly

Six more books exist in this series. Not so ugly if the writing improves. I am not willing to risk finding out by paying to read the rest.

This is a crossposted CBR8 review.