Review: "Promises, Promises"
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 18, 2012
This novel begins with Professor Sam Rockman taking his newly pregnant wife to the San Francisco Airport where she is leaving for a business trip.  As Sam is inside the terminal, his wife outside, a car approaches and there is a massive bomb explosion that takes her life.  That was the exciting promise of more thrilling scenes to come.  But, the promise was not fulfilled.  From there the author swings into too much meaningless, mundane dialog that encumbers Washington DC politics and daily affairs.  Too often the author loses me in this as well as in his flamboyant use of words that I had to refer to a dictionary to interpret.  I'm glad I just had to click the word on my Kindle to understand his intent of a sentence. The end scenes were not that thrilling, as he seemed to rush to the last 'thrilling' scene.  Oh, and there is an attempted sex scene at the very end that doesn't go anywhere either.  As I finished reading this book, I said to myself, "This was such a waste of time."  The story idea is good, and it could be made into a thriller if the author considered the reader who wants more action, simply written.