Once you've read something about the characters and plot of Vertical Lines, you discover it's nothing new to what romantic contemporary means, but since the first chapter I was hooked on it because of the female main character.
Kristen Kehoe wrote Vertical Lines with a double POV, each of which were the main characters, allowing a double perspective on the story. However, as much as I could relate to Jordana, I couldn't connect at all with Brooklyn. Perhaps it is because I have never been inside the mind of a man and I don't know what one can really feel, but it seemed more like a "perfectly imperfect man desired by all women" and less of a real man. I could get the desires and fears of Jordana, but I couldn't see Brooklyn's need to be with the girl which, by the way, I don't see as nice at all in a relationship, I think it could get to be very dangerous.
That was one of the main problems I had with the development of the plot, that need just didn't seem natural in a healthy relationship, and you can see it in the way it's portrayed in Jordan's POV, which is way gentler while Brooks is rougher. The other one is regarding the sex in the novel. I'm all up for written sex, but the fact that it took 20% of the book and it was all in the same place was just a bit tiring. I kept looking for plot progress but all I found was scene after scene of sex. I'd have liked it more if it was in different parts of it instead of condensed in just one.
I listed up there two aspect I didn't like about the novel, but I have to say I've fallen in love with it. I'd keep an eye on the "needing" topic, and perhaps split the sex in different scenes, but the richness of every character - even when I couldn't relate to them -, the nice writing of the author, almost poetic in some excerpts make The Vert Series a saga I'll definitelly continue.