Review: Empty Promises
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
The theme/plot of this book was brilliant but the execution fell flat. There is a certain girl, Anna/Aylen, who escaped from a religious group on the day of getting married to a man old enough to be her grandfather. The person who happened to be on the spot to help her is a rock star. Then the story went down the drain after that.She was almost taken back to the cult place by her step father and her erstwhile near husband, but the description of the attempted kidnap left a lot to the imagination. While she was being dragged away by her abductors in broad daylight nobody lifted a hand to help. Even the rocker, Carter, her savior was nearby but did not notice. The other rocker that was nearby, did not do anything till her stepfather hit her. That scene felt unreal to me. The second time, she was left alone, for the first time in Carter's house that is supposed to be well guarded. Granted she opened the door because she thought the men were the police, but again they chased her all over the neighborhood and nobody noticed. Even though she escaped from the van they put her in by wrecking it, we don't know what happened to these said abductors including her mother.The ending was a month after her escape from this group. She and Carter are now an item, no details about that. They went away for a day, had sex, declared their love for each other, then the end. What the h does now, how she will survive being in the outside world, the enduring qualities of her relationship with the rocker etc..., we were left to fill in the gap.In conclusion, the plot is inconclusive, nothing to sink our teeth into, then ended abruptly.Also Carter's character was not fully developed. He acts and talks like a juvenile. In fact no character was developed to the extent that we can say we know them.