Review: I kept thinking it was the longest book I had ever read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
This was a pretty good story spoiled by the fact that the author added way too much superfluous information, almost as if she was being paid by the word.  I would ask mysef, "Who cares that she place the black fabric table napkin in her lap?"  So much of this tyype of detail added nothing to the plot, or made you think it might come into play later in the story.  As another reveiwer wrote, the photos the main character was taking at the beginning of the book were emphasized so heavily, and then they just dropped off the radar.  Now, I have never written a book, and cannot claim to have the skill or the imagination to do so, but I read two or three a week, so I can tell you that this book would have rated a four star had the author or her editors taken the red pencil to almost half of it.  The story is interesting, the plot seems to move along, but you are absolutely weighed down by non-contributing noise in the form of walnuts and chocolate chips in bananna bread that is never mentioned again.I was also a little amazed at some of the sexual exploits of the two main characters.  Having lived through my fifties, I have not seen two may fifty-two year old males with the performance stamina that her main character displays.  I kept being distracted by thoughts that the whole thing seemed unlikely and a little contrived to create a naughty flavor.As another reviewer mentioned, I was also put off by the main character's personality change mid-stream when she seemed to become unglued emotionally.  She became someone I would not want to be around.  I don't feel she could justify the beharvior by her physical condition.  I kept rooting for the male lead to dump her and run for his life.  She became shrill, nasty and controlling.  Ugh.Go ahead and read this if you don't mind plowing through a lot of extra stuff.  It could be a really great little book. It just misses it.