Review: Dissenting opinion
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 13, 2013
OK I am not quite finished with this book I bought on the 11th.  I have the last chapter and to be honest I am going to have to force myself to finish.....later.  Although to anyone who reads this review,  this fact may not seem relevant.  However, I usually read a book a day.  That this is now into day 2 and still not done speaks volumes.I plodded painfully through this book.  I love, love, love Sloan Parker but before I was even at 50% of the way through I kept asking myself who wrote this story?  The characters and their interactions, emotions, who they really were all seemed wooden, forced and two dimensional.  Was this an early work she dusted off and presented to the public?  Was she distracted when she wrote this?  I was trying to reconcile what I was reading to her other works.This is really funny:  right before the scene with Mark and Scott's paperback book I was thinking I wanted "More" both figuratively and literally.  Those characters were developed.  You could "see" who they were.  And anyone who has read "The Break In" knows that Ms. Parker can pack a real evocative punch with very few pages.I missed all of that in this book.  The story line was good.  So was grammar, punctuation, etc.  This just had no spark.  Nothing to rivet me and I found the characters very flat.This one will not be a book to read over and over again...like I do several of her other works that are in my library.  I will wait for the next one and hope for a better showing.