Review: Don't bother
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2011
I downloaded this book hoping for a spectacular story, only to be disappointed. The first part, where Darcy runs away because of her stepfather's actions was okay, if scantily written, however things went downhill from there.The story jumps to 12 years later and Jordan is a writer whose mother, Stella, has cancer. As they have no money, he feels forced to sell Darcy's story to make money for her treatment. Darcy by this time, of course, is a famous artist working under a pseudonym and eight years ago became a recluse, only talking to her best friend Lisa, who has an "un-natural" attachment to her. Darcy, by the way, can only paint horror pictures  :(Jordan tries for three months to contact Darcy who is too busy wallowing in self pity to speak to him. Then finally he turns up on her doorstep and she deigns to sleep with him for revenge after the book comes out, then dumps him. He of course, has broken off with a perfectly nice girlfriend for this nasty little piece of work! You can see where this is heading can't you?Accused of the murder of her stepfather, the stupid woman refuses to tell the police that she was at a refuge which she bought for teenage runaways in case people found out it was there - as if the police wouldn't know about it and keep her association with it quiet!Why a young man like Jordan would bother chasing after a thoroughly unpleasant, cowardly woman like Darcy is beyond me but then again, he's an absolute burk for bothering about her when she dumps him after sleeping with him.Katherine Shay's writing is lacklustre, there is no depth to the characters and entirely too much "telling" rather than "showing." As an author of several novels, I would have expected a lot more of her than such sloppy writing and bad characterisation.At the halfway mark, I skipped to the end (which didn't seem to be bear any relationship to the plot) not being able to put up any more drivel and not caring what happened to the protagonists.Oh yes - I picked the murderer as soon as it happened!