Review: Okay read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2011
Presented in three parts, this short story is told in fist person by a man who meets his soulmate one day, by sheer coincidence, all without either saying a word to the other, just feeling the moment and that special connection where every thought and emotion is conveyed by physical expression and validated by intuition. This idea of the eyes holding all the intention and speaking all the truth did touch the romantic in me, and the first two parts of the story do have a very romantic quality to them. I did enjoy the love scene; I thought that was written in a very nice but sexy way.Where the story lets me down is the ending. I feel the ending didn't quite carry through with the same surreal, dreamlike appeal as the first two parts of the story. In trying to deliver the twist, the ending felt somewhat inauthentic to the rest of the story. Even without dialogue, the first two parts seemed to have more genuine feeling to them, and maybe it was all the explanation, all the telling, in the last part that made it seem kind of forced and contrary to what came before. For me, this was an okay read that stops just short of being good.