Review: Somewhere Between a 4-Star and 5?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2012
It's amazing how many 5-stars rating this novel has. So much so that I knew I had to start reading this book as soon as possible. Within two days, I managed to wrap up my reading.I like the book for the easy story-telling, although I have to admit some plots were tough to write and they were placed well in the book. I meant easy story-telling as it did not involve heavy literature stuff. Two, the characters were likeable, and that includes Petey. I think especially Petey.The love plot was almost too predictable. I cannot say that I like the Brian part. It was too easy. It was easy to paint an ungrateful boyfriend as mean, and every time Brian came up in the book, I was turned off, not by Brian, but how Brian was portrayed. If only more effort was placed on painting Brian better, as in a mean boyfriend but more subtle, as much as the effort on mess in Latakia was done, I would have liked the storyline better.Oh yeah, I don't like the title, nor the cover. It would have been a better marketing strategy to change these two.Other than that, I admire the effort made to deliver the story.