Review: Interestingly Creepy Love Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
I liked this enough I bought the next one - or maybe I just found it so dang depressing I bought the next one?  Wanted to know how they "escaped."The thing that bugged me beside the always traumatized heroine was that she was just so dumb, I think it was supposed to be endearing?  Why would she stay in a freezing building...just why about almost everything she did.  And then she has a business degree but at some point the author wants to really dumb her down so it's pointed out that she really just wants to stay at home and "create," and only runs a multi billion dollar business because, well, her Daddy wanted her to.  These things were annoyingly wrong....SPOILERISH SPOILERISH SPOILERISH - plus I was annoyed that she wouldn't pay $10,000 to get help, or that she actually did not reach out to anyone or anything but sleeping pills and a supposed money hungry doctor for help.  My gosh, if you can buy someone you don't even know a half a million dollar house, what's so bad about giving a family member $10,000?That part was extremely judgemental and irritating - especially when the aunt showed up at the hospital knowing what was wrong.  It created an uncomfortable paradox in a book that seemed to want to make being psychic was a good thing (?); but I guess it's only good if no one knows about it and you never charge for your time or talents? There are lots and lots and LOTS of spiritual cures, exorcisms, etc. in the world and someone with unlimited resources should have been more ready to avail themselves of them. I had high hopes for the grandfather but he is barely in the book.That's how I think the heroine was "weak," she was too afraid to fight back.  And she was a bit two faced - when her boyfriend called it "her" house she was sooo pained, but when she called it "her" baby he didn't even notice.  Basically, she needed to grow up, imo.but some of the story was good.  I actually really like how real the cop boyfriend kept it (except for the now sex love at first site romance) real - I knew people were going to hate him for what he did, but I think it was a completely rational reaction.  And it was fun seeing how they worked it out.  If they'd actually gotten to know each other before never parting after hello a lot of this wouldn't have been as reactionary - but that would've taken away from the story the author wanted to tell, I think.The next installment was a bit better....to be reviewed there.