Review: Needed a fuller conclusion
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2014
I really like Pepper Pace's books and will read just about anything she puts out, even if it's a short story, which I don't really care for. So, The Delicate Sadness was no exception for me. I liked the setup, that the two characters were virutally brought together by the loss of Rose's husband, I even enjoyed them getting to know each other. What I didn't enjoy so much was the ending, or lack thereof. When Rose and Michael finally meet there is some minor tension with her finding out something about him, and the odd response the people in his tattoo shop have to her, as well as, what I would have considered the main issue, their long distance relationship. The author eloquently pointed out how unbalanced their relationship really was given the distance between them, so I expected a good conclusion to help address that concern. Instead we are given a kinda conclusion, but it never really addressed the tension points in full. Outside of that, this was a decent short story.