Review: Chaser
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
This and more reviews available at [...]Rating: Chaser  I never became emotionally connected to the charactersUhmm, oh man this is hard.  I really debated my rating for this one.  It has so much potential and I felt like we were just scraping the surface for some of the scenes.  For myself, there is a point in a book when I check my progress (percentage in) and I am happy that I haven't even reached 50% yet.  How wonderful it is that I am so involved in the characters and desperately want to know what happens next, and oh please don't let it be over too soon.  However, with this book, when I checked and it said I was 60%+ into it, I realized the depth was missing.  I was breezing through this book's concept without an emotional attachment.Ben and Quinn have just moved into a small apartment down the hall from her older brother.  I didn't read the prequel so I didn't know how this came to be, but the book seems to carry it's own without the explanation.  Both in school, Quinn has the opportunity of a lifetime to study culinary skills in Italy for a month.  While the two are apart, which they both agreed was going to be hard on their budding relationship, but condoned just the same, they both question each other's commitment.Usually this type of back and forth, does she love me, does she not drama bores me.  I just want to scream at the book "just talk to each other'.  However, the author challenges the two characters by limiting cellular service and making Ben feel that if he were to tell Quinn he misses her too much it would ruin her time abroad, thus he refuses to talk to her.These two are so in love and making life for themselves, but the love scenes, the connection between the two is cut short.  While Quinn is studying in Italy, the description of the food took me there.  I felt like I needed to jump on a plane and experience it for myself.  This type of whole-hearted narrative between the lovers could have really made a difference.It took me a couple nights to get through this book.  I really wanted it to get better, but it was just not holding my interest as I'd hoped.  I am tempted to read the book leading up to this one, "Grounding Quinn", but not in a big hurry to do so.