Review: Loooong and draaaagged out
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
I'm not halfway through this book yet and I'm increasingly eager for it to end. The story is a good one and the story line is interesting -- a college student with some scary stuff in her past comes to town to get a new start and is targeted by someone who is connected to another person who lives in the same house as the student and who some time ago started a porn blog pretending to be a girl. Another connected character is desperate to have sex for the first time and at some point, I expect his story to merge with the main story in some significant way. The book is generally well-edited, with just an occasional typo or misspelling. I generally like the main characters and feel I "know" them, but I can't picture them; nothing has been given for me to visualize them. I also like the cat (the author captured cat behavior very nicely).The bigger problem is that while the dialogues are generally realistic, they (along with many scenes) are just far too long. The story moves way too slowly and I'm now finding myself skimming pages to get to something that I care about. Details are great, but not to the point that they become cumbersome. The author should go through this book again and see if he can't improve the pace by cutting out the material that makes the story drag.