Review: Disappointing read
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2011
I started this novel with high hopes, but these were dashed not long into the slow-moving plot. I found it very hard to believe that the main character could keep asking why the "villain" did this or that? It was obvious what he was doing which was ripping off the father for hundreds of thousands of dollars.The clues were totally unsubtle, the heroine very stupid. Why would she rush off to confront someone whom she suspects of fraud and murder, thus giving him plenty of time to cover his tracks? Her relationship with her lover is most unconvincing, as she asks him to wire her an enormous sum of money and agrees to marry him, but then doesn't bother to check her emails.The descriptions of the landscape take over pages of what should have been well-written mystery. Nothing in this novel was a mystery and the ending felt as though the author had suddenly realised that she has to finish the book, so rushed through the final denouement in a page or two.Most disappointing. I will try another by this author, and hope that things improve.