Got about 35 to 40ish% in and had to throw in the towel with Connected. This was another "nothing new to see here" kind of book, which is the main reason I'm giving it the heave-ho. I'd heard the ending got crazy but I didn't want to have to keep reading in order to get to that point. The language phrasing bordered on cheese sometimes, which also wasn't helping. 
 But it wasn't just a kiss. It was so much more. When our tongues met, it felt like our souls connected with each other as they passed through each other's mouths. 
 "Where did you learn to kiss like that?" I manage to say breathlessly. 
 "I wasn't just kissing you. I was also whispering in your mouth." 
 For whatever reason, it really bothered me that the main character was constantly comparing the new guy to her fiance. If you're falling for another person, then fall for them for who they are, not who they are compared to someone else. 
 But I now know all 10,000 details about how hot the lead character is. I think River's description was going on and off for about 4 pages, there was that much of an info dump on the character thrown at us. His eyes alone had so many different descriptions that I got tired of it. 
 I kept going until the first sex scene because I was curious if the steam factor would add something but the sex felt very mechanical to me. There were lots of generic CR terms floating around and not much actual feeling or hey...a connection. Plus, having a hard, wanton nipple just sounds strange. 
 Ben spoiler (view spoiler)[His death was very strange. He gets out of a car and is shot and that's about it. That scene could have used more description. There was no reason to feel any emotion because the scene went by so fast. Will he come back to life, perhaps? (hide spoiler)] 
 Something that was fun about the book : I did love the little icon pictures as chapter breaks. There was a Solo cup for one scene and a pearl necklace (no, not that kind!) for another, and the pictures represented what was going on in the book. This was a fun attention to detail that actually worked for me.