Review: Delightful Start, incomplete Plot
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
The story starts out with much promise. We are introduced to Emily, an adjunct professor and her precocious daughter Mia. I loved both characters from the start. Emily has inherited a charming, albeit delapidated, cottage. The autor does a wonderful job developing the characters an the setting. The plot line is also promising. There is a satisfactory level of tension and conflict.But suddenly the plot accelerates. The handyman falls in love with her. But the pace of the relationship rushes too quickly to a climax. The conflict between handyman and Emily's ex-fiancé is believable, but it is resolved too quickly. Emily remains as insecure as she starts out. She never finds her inner strength. Life happens TO her and she never discovers her inner strength nor reaches appoint where she is creating her life.I would love to see the author develop her novella into a full-length novel. The pieces are there to write a novel in the genre of Danielle Steele.