Review: Tainted Love
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2013
I gave this book 3 stars because it did keep my attention and I felt it was good enough to make me want to keep reading it, but it stopped there. This book for me had no real feeling, no raw emotion. It was told in first person like she was telling her story to her brother, as if she were writing him letters. I felt like this really took away from the story. It had the effect of listening in on a Psychology session of someone telling the accounts of abuse. I think if this had been told in third person, as a story, it would have been soooo much better. I don't know why, but also being told this way didn't let you get as close to the characters. I really wanted to feel bad for her, her husband was a jerk. But I just really didn't like her either. There was almost no real character development beyond the abuse.Also throughout the book she kept "telling her brother" I will spare you the details, I won't go into detail. Well.... I wanted those details!There were good parts to the story and like I said it was enough to keep me reading.