Review: Picture Perfect but not Story Perfect
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2013
I wanted to like this book, but was having a hard time.  The plot was slow and the suspense was nonexistent.  The entire story focused on the h and her inability to let people get close.  I was hoping there would be a lot more attention on the suspense element of the story.  Adding more elements of suspense would have helped the story move along.  As it was, I was mainly bored during the read.  I stopped numerous times as the story didn't hold my attention.Although the author tried to develop the characters of the H/h, the secondary characters were left really flat.  Her relationship with her brother was barely developed and could have been pivotal. Her supposed best friend was barely seen. If they had been developed better you would have cared about their story and would want to read the next book which featured them.  As I didn't get to know them, I don't really care about reading the next book.  I am a firm believer that secondary characters add depth to a book and this story needed more depth.  There were some timeline issues as if the author didn't know how to deal with the passage of time so she ignored it. Skipping Christmas in a book using holidays to pass time, is a big skip.One of my pet peeves is when writers drop the "g" at the end of a word to indicate an accent as in somethin' vs something.  As a reader, this just makes me feel the character lacks an education and not that they have an accent.  Having spent a lot of my youth in the south, amazingly, I still know how to pronounce the "g".  Another example is using "wanna" instead of "want to". This type of writing doesn't add to the story, but distracts from it.So although the book had potential, it didn't work for me.