Review: A Problem
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
The description of the story sounds good.  But the author created it by starting from the wrong end of the premise.  What should happen is this: you choose a number of characters and decide how they are going to behave given certain circumstances.  What this author did instead is start with a story, a plot, and then tried to create characters to act it out.  But it didn't work.Given what happened to Tara from the age of fourteen she would have been a different person from the one we are asked to believe in.  After fourteen or more years of her life, would she have returned to England believing that her keeper would let her see her child?  Never!  At the very least she would have taken steps to protect herself.  But then this wouldn't accord with the plot, and the plot came first.  The same was true of the ''"hero."  Trying to squeeze characters into roles they were not made for only gives a sense of unreality.  Much as we'd like to believe, the whole story refuses to hang together.  Too bad.