Review: The most interesting bit doesn't actually happen in the story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2011
A common problem in romance fiction is that the main drama/conflict/problem/plot actually doesn't feature IN the book, but much earlier.In other words, the authors are writing the wrong stories. Their ideas for the right stories are evident, yet these gems don't get the spotlight, instead hidden away within the space of a few pages of a way less interesting tale.Reading Chapter Eight, hopefully you, too, will prefer a story featuring Derek Schulze than anyone else. His may not have a happy ending, but it's bloody fascinating and emotional.But since Derek doesn't get a proper novella - he gets just those few pages, and they were more about Nick - dedicated to him, this serious note in TROPICAL SIN kind of feels chucked in.