A story about a love triangle, I wanted to love I Can't Tell You Why. I just did not connect with the author's writing, which made it hard to engage with or root for any of the characters in this one. I can definitely see why others would love this, just wasn't for me!

Unfortunately, I have not been able to read and review this book.

After losing and replacing my broken Kindle and getting a new phone I was unable to download the title again for review as it was no longer available on Netgalley.

I’m really sorry about this and hope that it won’t affect you allowing me to read and review your titles in the future.

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity.
Natalie.

Every now and again I put myself through the emotional wringer and read a love triangle story. Love triangles for me are always filled with angst, drawing out feelings and emotions that are sometimes difficult to experience.

Unfortunately, this book just wasn't for me. I didn't enjoy the storyline, I felt it seriously lacked any sort of substance. The characters were unlikeable for me, and I felt no connection to them at all, they seemed bland and boring..

This was a debut romance for Elaine Robertson North, and although I didn't enjoy the story I can't deny it was well written, hence the 2 stars.

I would be interested in giving another go at reading a story by Robertson North but this book just didn't do it for me!

**Copy received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review**

"I can't tell you why" is the story of Dina who's celebrity agent. She's successful,confident,rich but unlucky in relationships. Had her heart broken quite a few times. And YET. Yet she started an affair with a married man of 3 children and who is also her client. I mean..why would anyone do that in their right mind. Surely she could've understood the feeling of being cheated on. No. She doesn't. And it doesn't end there. She also ger involved with someone else while having an affair. It's just a recipe for uttee disaster which is not even entertaining.
The writing could've been way better because it bored me to sleep most of the time. So this isn't not for me at all.
( thank you netgalley and the publisher for providing me with the Arc in exchange of an honest review)

I had to force myself to finish reading this book. I kept picking up every other book except for this one. I was excited to read this book. The cover is beautiful and based on the description I expected to enjoy it. I try my best not to give up on books to see if towards the ends the story picks up and it catches my interest, but it wasn’t the case for this book. I will not post this review anywhere else, but I didn’t even get a chance to finish the book because it was archived before I could finish it.

I've received this book as an ARC, free of charge in exchange for my honest opinion. Some information about the book may change at any giving time.

DNF

I’ve been pushing this book for the past month and a half to read and I am still confused on DNF or just keep on reading. I wanted to love this book so much and I feel like there is a lot of potential with the characters but for me I couldn’t grab the idea of the story, jumping from an event to another out of the blue. We were on the road to learning more about Dani but nope the author decided to change completely the train of thought by changing the point of view or the day completely. I loved to learn more about the agency world but there might have been just a tad too much information, explaining all her different actors BORING!

Overall I might pick up this book in the future because I really do want to know how this love triangle will end, but can we just say that with 30% of the book read only do we know that it is not technically a full on love triangle yet……..

An engaging story from start to finish, I, however, could never live that type of lifestyle.
Thank you Netgalley the arc in exchange for an honest review.

I can't say I liked this book but I didn't hate it either. First, there were too many characters most were not important to the story. Second, the story was about a woman with relationship issues, both personally and professionally. The main character is suppose to be a woman with exceptional negotiating skills and a strong professional presence. In reality , she sleeps with a married client while simultaneously cheating on her lover.
She is also jealous of her best friend and his relationship with her other best friend. These issues are blamed on her father cheating on her mother and eventual abandonment issues once her father leaves the marriage.
In the end the heroine is left alone and is fine with that. But as we know in real life being alone is not ideal for anyone including this so called self sufficient strong woman..

I wanted to give this one a try as it is a step out of my romance comfort zone. I think the hints of a hollywood lifestyle really just turned me off. It's not necessarily my cup of tea. I want something I could relate to a little better. Otherwise, the writing was enjoyable!

This book started off really interesting, and you really get invested in the main character, Dani, and her romantic predicament.

An engaging read from start to finish. A complicated and messy love story full of brutal honesty! Dani doesn't always make the right choices but she owns up to that and it was great to see her character growth throughout the story.

Literally just turning the pages in this book was a struggle for me. So, ironically I can't tell you why I expected more depth from <i>I Can't Tell You Why</i> by Elaine Robertson North, but I just did. And instead I was left with a novel that was more summary than story, had more awful characters than characters worth liking, barely allowed readers to get to know the characters and their relationships in a real way instead of including meaningful conversations and events, and for some reason focused on a lot more menial ideas than thoughts of actual import. And I don't know, I just really did expect a <i>lot</i> more from this book. But I'm realizing now, after having read it, that even the title should have clued me in to the fact that this book wasn't going to have much deep thought. It just uses a cop-out as an excuse for the awful behavior of everyone involved. And I just cannot.

I think the worst part about this book is that it was so long alongside never actually giving the reader anything worth reading. The novel is a giant summary of events with a smattering of useless dialogue in between. The characters make horrible decisions for what seems like no bloody reason at all because you never get enough of the characters--it's all summarized!--to understand their motives, give a damn about them in any sense at all, or to even see how their relationships make sense.

I still have no understanding how any of these people cared about each other in the slightest. I don't understand what there ever could have possibly been for Alex to see something worthwhile in Dani or for Dani to see something worthwhile in Alex. Every single piece of their relationship that might have made them caring for each other make sense was entirely left out of the novel or briefly summarized. I mean, the book starts out with Alex propositioning Dani for sex while plainly stating that he had no intention of leaving his wife.

It's just gross. It's awful. And getting through this book was incredibly difficult. A novel that is mostly summary is not going to keep my interest. And at the end of the day, the writing wasn't so terrible grammatically that I had a problem with it, but the story and the characters need work. I can enjoy books where I hate the characters--see Sutter Keeley from <i>The Spectacular Now</i>--and appreciate them for their own merits, but I couldn't appreciate <i>I Can't Tell You Why</i>.

<i>I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. </i>

I enjoyed reading about the evolution of Dani that despite her professional triumphs, subsequently suffered personally as a result of them. A true depiction of someone who chose not to wallow but accept her fallacies and move forward.

I Can't Tell You Why wasn't an easy read for me. The more I read, the more tired I felt, and as result, finishing it took me way longer than it should've. There's a whole lot going on, an event after an event, some of it plot, some of it filler, and close to no air in between.
The text is so focused on the story, it seems as though the characters are second plan. I didn't feel like I got to know any of them, especially the main character Dani. I think that if slightly more of the text was focused on Dani's inner train of thought rather than everything happening around her, I would've been able to connect to her more.
I Can't Tell You Why isn't a bad book, it just wasn't for me. And Mrs. North's writing is decent, especially for a debut release. I am excited to see how her style further develops in her future releases.

While I enjoyed the story here, I have to admit this novel is not my favorite. This novel is very lengthy, which is not what I personally look for when I’m thinking about a romance novel. I also have to admit that none of the characters seemed truly likable, or at least, we never got to know them well enough to understand their actions and emotions.

The story I enjoyed tells of a love triangle between Dani, an entertainment agent; Alex, one of Dani’s clients; and Sean, a paparazzi photographer. Each romance seems dreamy and North pulls on the emotions well. However, we never really seem to get to know Dani enough to understand her relationship with each man, or what makes it difficult to choose between them. The lack of depth was added to by numerous supporting characters, so many in number I found it hard to keep track of their identities.

For a debut novel, I have to give it to Elaine Robertson North. She created a touching story and got it published, and with some refinement of her writing style and characters, I know her next novel will be amazing.

This is a debut novel, North's writing is good and there is no doubt she has a career as a writer. I truly liked all the characters and learning more about the world of being an agent for the entertainment industry, something that the Author had experience with previously. For the most part, I can handle a 3rd person narrative but it seemed like we never really got to know Dani fully. It's almost as if the Author wrote for the balcony when we were sitting in the front row. As wordy a book as this is and I admit I skimmed a ton of over-explanation many times, there was so much missing with respect to feelings, thoughts and days and sometimes even weeks! I wanted more of her with Sean and even Alex and the reasons as to why she was desperate to hang onto both.

I felt as if Dani's decisions were her own and in the end, she came to the hard conclusions that were painful but honest as to why she continues to sabotage any real relationships she has with the men in her life. But right along with her besties Billy and Amanda, I wanted to throttle her more than once as she spiraled out of control and I almost gave up on this book because of her choices.

I think with a little less in extraneous descriptions and a little more with respect to reactions and true experiences within Dani's head would have made this book a bit easier to digest. Too many lapses in time together with other characters left me feeling a bit bereft. And the secondary characters were wonderful and worthy of a bit more storyline. The title is truly apropos, however, since Dani truly can't tell us the whys of her decisions until the story comes to a close.

In the end, I will not hesitate to read more from this author in the future and give I Can't Tell You Why 3 stars.

An engrossing novel Dani a An independent career woman finds her self involved in a horrific love triangle, I was drawn in immediately to this complicated story .Highly recommend.#netgalley #I can’t tell you why .#secondstorypress.

Dani is an agent and works with actors promoting them and keeping them looking good in the spotlight. Alex is one of her clients, and he's "happily" married. So he says. 

One evening, Alex proposes that he and Dani have an affair. She totally shuts him down. But he's persistent, and he initiates things by kissing her, and thus their affair begins.

I had a hard time with the Dani/Alex romance because of how swiftly she shut him down in the beginning, and for a while, to me, it really didn't feel like she had any interest or connection with him besides sex.

And when I sat back and thought about it, it really was Alex pursuing her and initiating almost every time.  

I thought the Sean relationship moved fairly fast, and then I kept hoping that things would work out between them. But it was hard to watch Dani fall back into Alex's arms time and again during her relationship with Sean. 

There were parts of the story that felt slow to me. But there were also some twists I didn't see coming and I always love when there's a good twist in a story. In this case, there were a couple twists that had me surprised.

I keep trying to think of a way to discuss the ending without giving away spoilers, and I'm struggling. I'll just say, I thought I'd be unhappy with it but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. 

Overall, this was a good read!

Love triangles always make for interesting reading. This book was no exception. It's like having the worst day. Ever. Murphy's law maybe? An entertaining read for sure.

Sometimes we end up in situations we never thought we would be in. That’s the type of story this is. Dani, a smart woman, ends up in a complicated love triangle. From the first page to the last, I was engrossed. Elaine Robertson North does not disappoint.