Review: Why did I buy this book?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2011
That was my first thought as I read the finishing lines.The answer is easy. I am apparently easy, gullible or something like that.I'll make it easy for you with a list of what I felt was the problems with this book:It was short - that is not necessarily a bad thing, but when the author tries to cram a full length novel into too few pages and lacks skill at the same time, it is a mess.The characters were flat, as in cardboard cut-outs. I liked Vere. He would have been interesting to get to know, but sadly, we did not get to in this book. Tess was just not interesting.The sex is sad, bland and poorly written.You find yourself thinking "What?!" several times as Tess just accepts things. There is a great build up around Veres deception. It is one of the only places in the book where you actually feel something. And it just turns out to be nothing, Tess is just ok with it. Oh she punishes him. Or that is what the book says... I just didn't see it.And that is the main problem with this book; you feel absolutely nothing. There are no highs, no lows, you invest nothing in the characters and their story, you get no mental image of them.I have not read anything else by this author or any of her other books in this series. I don't know if the other books are longer or better written. I just know that this book felt like the author had a beginning and an end, but nothing in between. It felt like she herself invested nothing in her characters, did not enjoy writing them or their story.