Review: Completely unrealistic
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2011
Gertrude is a heavy-handed caricature of an evangelical college student.  She sees a couple kissing, concludes that the woman is married to somebody else, and decides to follow them.  Gertrude is also chubby.  You won't get a chance to forget this, as Marquez brings it up a couple of times every page.The action in this story is completely unbelievable.  Even the most judgmental evangelical I know (and I do know a couple) wouldn't assume that a man who wasn't wearing a wedding ring wasn't married to the woman he was kissing (not all married men wear rings, for one) and then follow a couple with the intention of videotaping and humiliating them.  This story just seemed like an excuse to create a character and humiliate her.