Review: Tangled Story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2013
This book was not a winner for me.  It moved so slowly it seemed as though nothing happened for chapters at a time.  Huge chunks of the story were told in a sort of expository manner---pages and pages about a character's background with nothing happening.  I get it, Claire was a chunky kid who magically lost all this weight and yet never realized she was a swan the whole time.  David was a Daddy Pleaser who wanted to prove he could handle the family business to gain the love he never received.  This was tedious.As far as the character development, as I noted above, rather than show us what made up the characters, the author chose to "tell" their background as though that was enough.  Claire was annoying.  There was more than one point I rolled my eyes and wondered if she would ever grow up.  She blushed, she misunderstood, she spent more than a month's salary more than once on things like a gift or a dress, after one fat kid comment she vowed never to dance again....  The "misunderstandings" were a joke, she KNEW he was a dance instructor, she knew his studio was in his apartment,  and yet every time she saw him with a beautiful woman she assumed it was another lover.  Wow.  And yet she never saw anything coming with David?  David was a wimp in search of a mommy.  This was billed as "Four people's search for love," but there was just not enough depth to any of the characters to make me care about their "Search."Alec might have been a good character if he had been given any depth at all, but all we are "told" is that he loved his grandma and when Claire asked about his family he got all upset.  No real reason for that, especially if you read how his parents behaved at the end.  Total contradiction.The writing was technically okay, but there was more than one moment when the author's choice of vocabulary left me wondering if she had started out writing a historical romance.  Bullocks, bluestocking, alas, are just a few words that come to the top of my mind, but there were many, many examples of totally out of place words like this.Overall, I would give this book a miss.  The plot was thin, the characters shallow, and the story slow.