Review: Romance First, Thriller A Distant Third
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2013
The emphasis in this book is the romance between Ross and Allie, not the hide-and-seek thriller plot.There is a nice twist at the end, but it is foreshadowed in a way that diminishes the surprise.It's fun to root for two people who find romance anew after believing they've lost each other for a long time.On the other hand, some of the internal dialogues were typical of the daisy-wheel thinking (he loves me, he loves me not; she loves me, she loves me not) that makes so many romances into a psychological pingpong game for the reader.The plot also suffers from the kind of scary movie behavior that makes viewers want to grab the character and say, "Hey, c'mon, you know better than that." On the one hand, Allie does a great job eluding her stalker assassin; then suddenly she feels safe enough to go for a little walk in the woods that almost gets her killed.Writing is relatively free of any big errors, and that's a plus.Nothing terribly wrong here and nothing that makes it memorable for me.