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Okay, I could get past the well-worn plot line (beautiful girl almost engaged to football star boyfriend really loves the bad boy) and the tale told through a diary that is only partially a diary. But I'm sorry, when the last 30 pages is nothing but a recitation of how the story wraps up, I couldn't handle it any more. That was probably the hardest 30 pages I have read in the last year.

Goudge has written many books - which I had a hard time believing...I even checked to see if this was self published. "The Diary" was the first I've read. Believe me, I won't be going back for more. The characters were like cardboard. The football star so good that he can forgive anything with just a minor hiccup to vent his anger. The "bad boy" of course isn't bad at all. And the girl...well, she was boring. Throwing the daughters in to pull the tale along was totally unnecessary. In fact, they were a distraction.

I felt no emotion. I figured out the twist in the story pages before it was revealed...so there was no surprise. And by the end, I kept checking page count to see how much longer I had to suffer through.

Although it's relatively clean (one or two swear words and a love scene straight from a text book) I can't in good conscience recommend this one to anybody. Don't believe those other 5 star reviews. This was not a romance worth the time it took to read.