Review: I want to give it more stars...but I can't
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2012
After a recommendation to read this book, I took it on vacation with me and gave it a read. Well it is a long book (which I am generally in favor of), but to be fair, only about 60% of the book is devoted to the main characters' story. The remaining 40% is some other stuff thrown in about the heroine, Aisha's, ex-husband and his associates, then the whole last part is about her family and a cult they belonged to. While I would like to say that all of this was put together in a seamless way that wasn't distracting, I can't. In all honesty, the main story about Connell and Aisha was a sweet, heartbreaking story about two people who found love in, well, a very unlikely place. I loved their chemistry, their stubborn back and forth, and how protective they were of each other...kudos there. But anytime the author moved away from this core story it was simply distracting, and hard to keep up. I found that I didn't really care about these other characters, not really, and was just reading to find out how the whole thing ends, because at one point it felt like it was going to go on forever. In my opinion if the author had stuck to Aisha and Connell's story, then perhaps explored the other characters' stories in another book that would have been better. Alas, it is because she did not that I can only give this book 3 stars.