Review: Greek Tragedy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2013
The core of Lindsey's heart is not ice, but she guards it like a last outpost in the wilderness. She needs to be strong and independent because she is an island -- alone with a brother and five friends.  Dimitris, who grew up surrounded by love and affection in his family, gives himself to Lindsey, who is not ready.  She watches Dimitris at a lunch with his loving multi-generation family as if she is an anthropologist observing a remote culture.  She has never had anything like what he and his family share.  His mother wonders what he sees in her but his grandfather gets it.  He's a fan, maybe her only fan.  The two lovers share a connection.  Dimitris has met enough beautiful women to know a connection is rare and he fights to keep it.  When he is not fighting against it, with some cruelty, with her.Pamela Ann has a writing style all her own.  It is spare, sort of like poetry.  Sometimes the words she chooses are inaccurate, but you auto-correct and realize: that word sounds as if it would be right, I understand why she is using it.  She builds a story in and between the lines, like a web, that adds up to something satisfying and interesting.  The first book in her Torn series got re-written by some boring English major (it now reads like a plodding Reader's Digest romance) and it lost all its quirky flavor.  I wish I could get that original un-edited book back (I updated it on my kindle, sadly).  This Santa Barbara-based group of young adult women and friends has a lot of energy and I like reading about their lives.  Look forward to reading more about Dimitris and Lindsey, who have upgraded to version 2.0 in their relationship and have a lot of romantic ground to cover.  Lindsey needs to get her feet on the ground, find a direction, manage her life and her long-distance romance.  Dimitris -- it was simple for him to jump from A to B, but he is going to need to work as hard with Lindsey as he does at his career to achieve the life with her that he wants.  Look forward to Book Two (so much).