Review: Has not lived up to the promise of the 1st half…at…all.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
**forgive any slight spoilers**"Ghost" was so good.  Even as P.O.'d as I was about the bait and switch of a second half that we had to buy…I still thought it was pretty well done.  Which makes me wonder what went wrong with the 2nd half?? I'm not even finished, I'm about half way through (I know because I check continuously because I can't believe how this is going). Kayla in Ghost was admirable and gutsy.  Kayla in Code Name is…self-pitying…and whiny…and bitchy...and a martyr. I could not believe the way her character was being written.  After the tenth "you're better off without me", "I'm so broken", "just let me die", I was thinking "yeah, just let her die already"  You can't really root for her, she's just not a sympathetic heroine.It kills me to even write this.  Because clearly Ms Waters invested so much time and energy into what had to clock in at about a trillion words.  And I admire the PTSD angle (because it brought about some heart-wrenching interactions).  But come on, enough with the "woe is me".If I can, I will come back and update this after reading the rest…