Review: Meh. Just so-so
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2013
Veiled Eyes (Lake People)The first chapter was good enough that it pulled me into the 2nd and 3rd and 4th... But as the story wore on, it wore me out. The scenes began to jump into each other, as if there had been a whole segment or paragraph erased, and the two ends were conjoined without a proper smoothing. For example, when Anna and Gabriel are finally alone in his house and they're have a serious discussion, I wasn't aware the scene was leading up to a sex scene until it was almost over and Gabriel was finishing up. The emotional flow from the scene before to the actual sex scene didn't add up- and this wasn't the only part that did this, this is just the only part that I actually remember, specifically, that did this.The lingo of the characters seemed inconsistent as well. Where I understand the town was set in backwoods Louisiana, everyone seemed to switch between Cajun french-american and southern american. It made for unauthentic and inconsistent characterizations and it frustrated me to the point where I had to stop reading a few times to muster up my strength before bearing on.Also, Alby had gotten drunk at a Mardi Gras celebration, just before yet another disaster struck Anna, and the next chapter starts with the mentioning of St. Patrick's Day... I'm not sure if Alby was referring to a previous drunken event where he had drank just as much, or if the author had made a change to the timing/type of celebration and missed this in editing, or what. But when I saw that, I began praying for the end of the book to happen soon.With all that, I still think the premise is interesting. It's a concept that is somewhat novel and entertaining, and I appreciated the creativity of the story, but overall, 3 stars for effort, 2 stars short of a good book.