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|summary=Bland characters make this romance one that's only for real fans of the genre.

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''New England Rocks'' has its good points, I suppose, but it's hard to get involved with a book which focuses massively on its two main characters and yet still somehow fails to give either of them much development. I could cope with a tight focus on a romance to the exclusion of interesting supporting characters if the main couple were excellent, but as it is, they're pretty boring and everyone else is one-dimensional - with the worst culprit being Jesse's girlfriend Amber. She seems to exist only to put a slight obstacle in the way of the instalove between Rain and Jesse. Even a subplot with Jesse's abusive father gets barely any time on the page - a shame, as it could have fleshed out his character a bit.