Review: Disappointing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
On the one hand, this story had a unique plot and a complex hero which should have made it a great read. Where it fell flat for me was in the execution and the heroine. The writing style is stilted with dialogue that doesn't flow naturally (too few contractions and too many instances of sentences that contained the characters addressing each other by name), along with repetitive and heavy narrative that slowed the pacing. The heroine (and secondary characters) comes across as selfish and shallow and just a little too needy. Maybe it's the mother in me that finds it hard to like a woman who can easily dismiss leaving her three kids (with them having no idea where she is or what happened to her) for over a year with the simple caveat, "my sisters will take care of them."