Review: very slow moving
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
Finding IsadoraThis was a slow moving book.  It was written entirely from from the view point of the female character.  And she just kept rehashing the same dilemmas over and over.  The story is about a boring woman who is lusting after the father of her boring fiance.The author tries to give you every reason to like the characters.  The protagonist is not only an animal lover but she is a veterinarian.  She not only adopts animals but they have all been traumatized or injured.  All of her friends have had some trauma in life.  But they have overcome them by their sheer goodness. The author even throws in a man dying of Aids.  Her parents are hippie liberal activists.  Her love interest is a brilliant good looking lawyer who mostly works pro-Bono.  The "worst" character is a corporate lawyer that works a lot and just wants his father's love.  He is not as good as the others because he is not actively involved in a cause.In spite of the characters being the equivalent of a 21st century  Gandhi, King and Mother Theresa, all rolled in one, I didn't like them.  They were driven by lust and in the end didn't care enough about who they hurt.The author totally dropped the ball by not concluding a major thread in the story.  She wrapped up all of the protagonists major issues in a few paragraphs over a dinner in a restaurant.  Then the story just abruptly ends.