Review: So much packed into a small package.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2012
Harper Fox manages to pack a novel's worth of narrative into a very short novella, or a really long short story. Its format means that it can't provide the depth of character or plot that we (her fans) expect; but I was startled at how much there was in those pages; how vivid a picture I had in my head by the end. And not just because the setting is Rome.I am always amused, when reading reviews, that readers want the characters to behave differently from the way they do; as if people don't make galling errors in judgement every day.I don't know, IS there an underworld of rent boys who used to be runway models?  But if there was, I completely see how a too-young and too-pretty model could be lured into that. I am not familiar with many former couture models who became college professors or accountants.  Where to they all go?And, some ask, why wouldn't Lauro just tell Sam his big secret? Well, would YOU? I wouldn't have.The pacing, the details, the writing, the palpable emotion. Everything that makes Harper Fox so delicious to read is right there, in a nutshell, as it were.