Review: Too much packed into a novella
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2012
This is the first book I've read by this author and I'll wait a whilebefore I read another....I tried it because it was a free e-read... Although I found the story of Nick and Sam sweet, there was SO much lacking...We didn't really know any of the story behind Sam's ex and exactly what he did to land in jail and the extent of his abusiveness...The vague information given regarding Nick's "teenaged" birth parents and Sam's mother...All these extended family members - there were SO many that I couldn't even keep track of who belonged to who....Sam was obsessed with finding out who shot her father but that was really never resolved....And little Scotty was thrown in as an aside rather than finding out more about how he ended up in foster care and developing Nick's and his relationship more....Nick's best friend's John's death and the vague inference of his parents kind of "adopting" Nick afterward....And the biggest thing - Sam's miscarriage(s)-and the non-resolution ofher fear of trying to get pregnant again - There's a thing called anEpilogue - where the author could have resolved this with Nick and Sam's healthy baby having been born...Just a whole lot of inconsistency...If the author put more thought into character development and expanded the storyline I think this could have been a decent full length novel....