Review: BIG Disappointment
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
This book was going well until the middle. All of a sudden implausible reasons started popping up for the behavior of her brother and Scarlet's personality changed from a strong woman to a silly woman in love. The relationship with a former crush from her teenage years takes off like they had never been parted. People involved with the crime are thrown in and we are supposed to accept them as though we knew the background of these people. I would like to go into more detail as to exactly why I didn't like the book,  but I can't because it would give away too much information to new readers and would spoil the story for them. Suffice to say that it was the author's job to make me believe why things happened, why her characters behaved the way the did, and to make the story believable. She didn't. She told me, but didn't show me and it just didn't work. It's a shame because she was doing so well for the first third of her story. Many authors state that their characters force the author to write about them the way they want to be and act. The author doesn't have the control. In this case, it appears to me that the author forced the characters to be who she wanted them to be and as a result, her characters didn't come across to me as real people.  I wouldn't recommend this book to others because there are too many better novels out there to enjoy.