Review: I finally finished it!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2012
The story started out with great promise and decent writing.  It, then, deteriorated into a muddle of contemporary slang and hard to follow activity.  The story line itself is boring, the characters predictable, and the characterizations sterotypical.  The slang had me stopping my reading so I could look up the sense of the word or phrases.  I finally figured out at the 44% point that I really didn't care about the characters or about the story, so I quit reading.  The writing is better than most so I gave it two stars even though I usually give one for something this unreadable.  At one point the writer had two people "corroborating" over dinner in the kitchen.  I think she needs a dictionary as well as a thesaurus.  She also needs an editor.Actually, I did finish it, if you can call skimming reading.  All of the above stands but the writing smoothed out and the use of slang diminished somewhat.  I had to make myself finish it but I didn't have anything better to read.  It should have been exciting but was largely tedious.  The two stars stands.  I certainly will not read more by this writer.