Review: Missing Pieces
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2011
While it's clear Lee Moan is actually a very good writer, with natural prose and dialogue, both of these stories needed a lot more attention than is given to them. Forever feels like it's missing half again its length, and 12 Minutes felt like it should have been a novel on its own but wound up being a scene rather than a complete story. They both felt like they were just starting when they abruptly ended with no real resolution or plot progression, a real shame given how well they'd been built up and written up til that point.I also didn't feel that either of the main protagonists were particularly deserving of any sort of animosity on my part, despite what seemed like the narrative trying to vilify them; a relationship goes both ways, and if someone isn't getting what they need out of it and the other person either can't or won't deliver it, then it does neither party any good to stay together out of some misguided conception that it's the "right" thing to do because the other loves them still. Neither of the male leads in these stories are bad guys... just guys, people who need something more than what they're getting. That's all.I feel like Lee Moan needs to write a book about either one of these topics, and I'd gladly buy it. As they stand, they're too-brief pieces of a larger puzzle that left me feeling dissatisfied.