Review: Not the great...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
I wanted to like this book. From the summary it sounded like something I would really enjoy. And I did for the first few pages - where there wasn't any dialogue. That was one plus for this book...that there were pages and pages of inner thoughts without dialogue between characters. For some books, this would be a major dislike, but for this book, it was the saving grace. Because when the characters started talking to one anther, I cringed. It was not organic - smoothly, flowing conversations that would actually happen in the real world. Instead, it was stiff, formal, and choppy. The characters were depicted as close and loving, but they way they talked with one another, you would have thought they were strangers. I don't know; I really thought this would be something I would enjoy and I ended up skimming most of the second half just to an idea. When the writer threw in a bunch of new characters half way through, I really got lost. Too many people, complicated relationships, references to things that made no sense in this book. I read another review who said that there were other books about these characters, but I didn't know that when I read this book so it was very confusing. Maybe that would have helped understand all the interactions with these new characters, but I will not be searching out those books.