by Holly Shomo (link)
Genre het, romance, drama/angst
Pairings Isaac/OFC, Taylor/Natalie, Zac/OFC
Length prologue and 11 installments
Status Completed (first part of the Zac and Dirbee Series)
When an author has put a lot of planning into a series, I usually have high hopes for it. Holly clearly put a lot of thought into “Zac and Dirbee,” although she never wrote past the first story of the series. In the end, that’s not such a disappointment. All the planning in this case isn’t a sign of good writing so much as a sign of way too active an imagination.
There are more dropped plot threads in this story than I can count. That’s a shame, because at least one or two of them (such as Zac’s fictional girlfriend, Kate, and his near-miss of a teenage pregnancy) could have been interesting to read. Instead, Holly only mentions these things in passing or abandons them entirely in favor of weddings and babies. What little drama does happen in Tomorrow May Never Come is usually fixed quickly and moved on from.
But not always. The oddest plot thread is Taylor’s cancer. It sets the plot into motion and contains the biggest potential for conflict between the brothers, but even that never quite comes to a head the way I wish it would. It seems as though Holly had a lot of ideas, but was afraid to fully write them. Worse than that, her writing is a bit too bland to sustain what drama she does manage to infuse the story with. Between the missed opportunities for interesting plots and a real Mary Sue of a main character, there’s not much in Tomorrow May Never Come to recommend.
Review by Bethany (website)