Review: Misleading
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2013
This book is a romance masquerading as a murder mystery or diluted crime novel. The focus of the story is the relationship between the two main characters. There was nothing particularly wrong with the book, it is decently written and reasonably interesting it's just that it seems to be marketed incorrectly or been slotted into a genre it doesn't deserve. I am getting fed up with insipid romance novels being sold as something else which seems to happen a lot online. Make it clear it is a romance with an element of crime or mystery, don't pretend it is something other than a romance. Mystery and crime readers will understand this, there is nothing more frustrating than thinking you are going to read a thrilling novel to find yourself wading through the romance formula of boy meets girl, one doesn't like the other, something happens and they get together, then one decides they can't be together until a manufactured climax brings them back to each other for good. Suffering through the same old kissing and/or sex scenes (depending on whether it is a sneaky Christian book, another genre that doesn't like to announce itself and it doesn't take a genius to figure out why) when you thought you'd be visiting crime scenes and doing investigative legwork from the safety of your armchair is very disappointing.