Can’t Lose You 5
Posted: June 21, 2007 Filed under: Can't Lose You Leave a comment »I remember really disliking this series when I marathoned the first four volumes, but I was actually quite won over this time around.
The main character, poor girl, is living with poor boy on an isolated island to keep away from rich girl’s family. Of course rich boy is doing all he can to find her. There are plenty of dramatic moments as rich boy is coming unhinged due to his absolute need for poor girl, some drama where he pines for her (aside from coming unhinged, the unhinged stuff mostly has to do with him ruining other people’s lives), some bodyguard sacrifice drama, some romantic drama between poor girl and poor boy, and a really great chase scene.
Somehow, mixing mafia and romance works spectacularly, and having the hitmen come after poor girl again and again just made things… hotter. It was pretty good. The characters all came across as quite fleshed out this time too, and the romance was written really believably (I’m tired, so I can’t remember if that’s a word or not). The reunion between poor girl and rich boy was to die for, too. Even after I didn’t like the first several volumes, I really got into that scene, which was straight out of a movie and kind of by the book, but great nonetheless.
It really felt like it had concluded at the end of this volume, but there’s one more volume left, and I worry it may make an asshole out of rich boy. We’ll see.
