Review: Good idea, poor execution
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2013
Secrets and Lies has a decent plot line. I see where the author(s) was going with it. There were just too many mistakes that made the book hard to read.First, I couldn't get a decent version in either iBook or Nook format. The paragraphs were all double or triple spaced in iBook (I could live with that) or in different fonts in Nook (harder to handle.Next is the authors love of the ellipses... Just too many... way too many... In the first half if the book they appear in at least every third dialog line. Very distracting. They are used more sparingly in the second half, which was an improvement.Then came the overall dialog. Just too many lines of speech with no description to help the read picture what the characters may or may not have been doing or thinking. The only clue you had was the actual dialog. Too much tell and not enough show in my mind.And it seemed the book had pages of unnecessary dialog as well. Dialog that was every day talk that didn't move the story along. It made the first half of the book drag badly.The action picked up in the second half of the book but I found the ending far too unbelievable. Some will like it. It wasn't to my liking, so that may be more personal preference than critique. It just sort of came from left field.  And I'm sorry, but the closing line of the book isn't right. It's just wrong.Again, I really liked the idea of the plot. With a little polish and a good editor this can be a good book. Just not in its current state.