Review: Difficult to review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
This book is difficult to review without giving spoilers because my biggest problem with it revolved around the 'big reveal' at the end.  The concept behind the book is a complicated one that would be difficult to pull off successfully, and I think the author did a slightly above average, but still not quite good enough job at it.  I spent the first half of the book confused about where it was going.  I had thought the book was a romance novel when I bought it, but when I found out the main character was married, I got confused.  I lost interest the more Emma went on about how great her husband was  since I didn't see how or why a romance was going to be introduced (and it was a bit hard to get interest in the first place, since I wasn't a huge fan of Emma's 'voice' at first).  The middle of the book was boring to me because I felt adrift from the characters due to my lack of understanding of the premise (beyond just 'Emma learning about herself'), and felt like the book had been mis-billed and I'd been cheated.  When I finally slogged through the middle, though, I got back into the book.  The last 25% was a really good read, and I liked how the reveal turned out and that I wasn't too far off in some of my guesses of what it could be.  I'm not sure if the author would have been better off revealing the secret earlier or not, or possibly bigger hints would have helped (hints were there, but they were subtle)--perhaps maybe just not have misled us by thinking it was something 'the tech guy' could have found on her computer, since, as far as I could tell, it wasn't.