Review: Very disappointed.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 27, 2012
Let me start by saying that I have in the recent past, read over a dozen books written by Grace Rose and I have loved them all. Not so with this one though. I was very disappointed in fact. I would have love to see more actual dialogue, and a lot less unspoken dialogue. What I mean by that is..... there were so many wasted pages where this one was thinking this, or that one was thinking this. I know you need to have some of that in order to get into the characters head, but Lord have Mercy, how many times in this book did each of the characters go over and over again about the same exact same thoughts? It became so repetitious that I found myself getting bored and uncaring about the whole story line.It was the same way with the author describing the scenery around each corner, too. There are ways to describe people, places, and things without taking dozens and dozens of pages to do it. After a while I think the readers mind just goes numb, I know mine did. I am not a writer by any means, nor have I ever claimed to be one. BUT...what I am is a very avid reader. A reader that reads all types of books, a reader that reads on the average of 5-7 books a week, 52 weeks of the year. But I DO know what I like, and what I don't.I also have many family members and friends who are also avid readers, who also read the same type of things I like to read. After many discussions about our major likes and dislikes in the stories that we've all read in the past, I can safely say.... that we are all in major agreement on this issue that I've just described above.There are very good stories out there right now, that don't use the things I've described to you up above. And yet, those stories have turned  out to be some of the best stories I have read. For example; I just finished reading 'Despite the Past' by Elaine Dyer. What a great read that was. Lots of really good dialogue, with out all the he/she thoughts, or long descriptive scenes. Yet I felt the author made me feel like I was right there watching the whole thing unfold before my own eyes. The author also had a way with words that made me feel all the same emotions, that the characters were feeling at the time.I only rated this book with a 3 star rating, which in itself is very rare for me. Just go take a look a the many other reviews I've written in the past, and you'll see that that is true.. I have to feel very strongly about a book to rate it even that low. I'm not a person who likes to openly criticize an author, especially when I know that it has taken them a lot of time and effort to bring us their stories. Some work, but then again some just don't. IMO- this is one of those that just didn't work, at least not for me.Would I recommend this book? No, but I would gladly recommend her other books, and I my self, will try her books again in the future.