Review: 2.5 rounded up to 3, spoilers in the review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2013
I love a lot of Cardeno C's works and really loved some of them,  but have to admit that I've yet to find a short story of hers that I like.As a lot of others have commented,  this is too rushed,  with too much back story to make it convincing going forward without a lot more words.  It was all too fast and crazy.  But I have another problem with it.Spoilers AheadIn the sex scenes I found the narrator, Rafi, to be oddly passive,  accepting but not initiating,  in a way that felt like the bad old classic Mills and Boone.  I didn't like any aspect of this relationship.  It was hot,  Cardeno know hot to write a hot scene,  but it wasn't engaging.  I really feel that the short novellas are not her forte (and I know,  Cardeno has not accepted a gender,  but this in no way felt like it was written by a gay man,  it felt totally like it was written by a woman, and that was my main problem with it)I will buy the longer books,  but I'm starting to think I will give the shorter ones a miss unless the reviews really rave.