Review: Not so passionate
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2012
Even though I was disappointed with the book overall, I did like the characters and there were moments in the book that were lovely, but there were so many problems that it was hard to appreciate them.There is a lot of story here that is only hinted at while the characters ever-vacillating emotions were used as filler crowding out what would have been more interesting, like more of the backstories for each of them before they met and for the beginning of their relationship. Sometimes it was hard to follow the leaps in emotions.I did not buy the reason Rose did not tell Giovanni about the pregnancy while she was actually pregnant. Then when she is injured severly enough only hours before she is due to see her beloved husband for the first time in 4 months that she loses the child, she just disappears from his life. Did he call any hospitals to see if she had been in an accident? Why does he just accept what his low-life scum of a brother who he knows to be low-life scum says? Also, I am pretty sure Rose was both 36 weeks and 7 months along when she was attacked and lost the baby.When Giovanni actually interrupts his brother attacking and attempting to rape Rose he gets all upset with her because she did not tell him about the previous attack and now he never wants to see her again. Really? Gee, I wonder why most victims of sexual assault have a hard time talking about it? Maybe the fact that your wife disappeared for two years should have been your first clue that it was a little bit upsetting to her.