Review: Starts out so strong...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2013
This review is going to seem like a bit of a lament.  It's a lament about missed opportunities.I wish that I could add an half-star to make my rating 3.5 instead of 3 stars, but I can't bring myself to give it 4 stars.  The beginning of the story is a 5 star beginning.  The middle of the story is a 5 star second act.  I was really enjoying it.  However, the closer I got to the end, the more my fears were becoming real.  This story's ending left me cold. I felt as though I could deeply care about the two central characters in the situation, but by the last page, it felt as though the author didn't care about them anymore and took the easy way out.  The irony is that it was a story about people not giving up in the face of adversity, but it feels like the writer gave up.  I wanted to see a much stronger resolution.By the end of the story, I thought maybe I'd been reading a preview for a full-length novel, but I checked and didn't find anything indicating it was a preview.