Review: Not Good!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2013
This book was really bland!  It felt juvenile and the writing lacked fluidity.  The characters were underdeveloped and one dimensional.  It seemed like a bunch of facts without emotion and intensity tying them together.  When there was emotion, it was over the top and not realistic!  In one scene the heroine becomes so upset with her mother when her mother (who she knows doesn't like dogs) refuses to allow her dog into her house.  The reaction was out of portion given this was the first time she had seen her mother in six years or talked to her in three years.  On top of this, her father (mother's husband) had just died.  Really, you're making a fuss over a dog minutes after seeing your mother for the first time in years under circumstances of bereavement?  The book alluded to pass issues between her and her family, but these issues were not fleshed out (one sentence said she was treated poorly.  Never said how or why, or what that treatment was).  All we know is that the parents were against her marrying a white man.  I have seen this idea (forbidden love whether based on race, social class, etc.) successfully presented in books several times, but it was poorly presented in this book.  I am not trying to bash anyone, just want to say that this book could have used a great deal more development in all areas.