Review: Could've Been Better
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
I thought this book started out interesting, but confusing. It was definitely suspenseful, and at times creepy and frightening. The bad guy was well-written and believable, for the most part. But the way the other characters acted was unbelievable.**SPOILER ALERT**If a girl had been kept prisoner as a sex slave, would she willingly walk back into the possibility of being captured again? She had obviously not recovered much, as she continually has flashbacks, and nightmares. I don't think she would put herself at that risk again. Also, she says her faith in God helped her through, but God is mentioned very little in this book. Little enough that I would strongly hesitate to call this Christian fiction.Would an FBI agent really be so clueless as to bring the former victim with him on the chase? Would he not contact his superiors and have a watch put on the suspected house? Would he really enter without any backup there at all? Would a man who's known an abused woman less than a week really refer to her as his girlfriend when all they've done together is take a car ride and almost get killed? Seriously?Those parts of the book really bothered me. I think the basic idea of the book was good, but just not done well enough to get more than two stars from me. It became tedious near the end for me, so much so that I didn't even finish it. I would try another of her books, but only if it were offered free, as this one was.