Review: Good atmosphere setting but the plot loses focus and becomes repetitive
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2011
I enjoyed the atmospheric opening and the descriptions of the locales, but the story took about three times to tell as necessary. This wasn't helped by the fact that the heroine's decisions become increasingly difficult to comprehend and so much of the explanation of why she never does the obvious and logical thing each time she has a choice comes so late in the book that it's likely almost impossible for the reader to identify with her reasoning. She seems by far a weaker rather than a stronger character because of this. The final resolution seems equally incomprehensible; a good literary surprise comes as the inevitable twist that you should have seen coming, but this was simply out of left field.Some of the heroine's self-realizations are intriguing and well-written, but rather in the same way that the author repeats the same scenario over and over, she repeats these moments of self-awareness again and again.Two stars for the descriptions and atmosphere.