Review: Story Just Went On and On and On (2 Stars)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2013
I picked up "Blue Heaven" via the Amazon free book day a few weeks back and finally got around to reading it this weekend.The story's main protagonist is Eva Delacroix who comes back to her family's former vacation cottages on Lake Huron determined to turn them into the dream tourist destination that her father dreamed about before he died. Daniel Bryman the local banker also has a connection to the cottages and wants to keep Eva from destroying what he considers his family's legacy.This novel was a hybrid of chick lit with romance thrown in but I found myself unable to really get into it.I think the main reason that I really didn't enjoy this novel was that there seemed to be very little depth to any of the characters (Eva and Daniel were supposedly attracted to each other but I really didn't get it or find it believable) and there were so many side plots going on (runaway teen, renovation storyline, Eva making friends, etc.) I just found myself slogging through the novel.By the time we get to what I considered the novel's main denouement, the novel went on for several more chapters after that. Frankly, this novel could have been broken up into a sequel instead of just painstakingly going along until it sputtered to the ending.Another issue I had was the shortness of the chapters, for a moment I felt like I had stumbled into a James Patterson novel (that is not a compliment). Due to the shortness of the chapters I think that hindered the author's ability to actually tell a novel with well rounded characters. I really didn't get Eva as a person and Daniel just seemed like a heavy handed jerk throughout up until the almost ending where he seemed to have a total personality change.The grammar in this novel was technically correct I just wish that the writing had provided more detail on characters, food, descriptions of settings, something to make it stand out better.