Review: Enjoyable suspenseful thriller but could be better in parts.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2011
On the whole I do enjoy this one but there are also parts where I thought could be better. The setting is unique, the writing good, the plot suspenseful and what could be more romantic than a tough ex-agent and a reclusive artist. But Luki's character is the issue. It is as if the writer tries too hard and could not decide who she wants him to be. He is over forty and by all appearance a tough man totally in control. But there are times when his behavior is just contradictory to what he is suppose to be.Then there is the ending when the villain and his motives are revealed. Turn up to be quite an anticlimax as it is just the usual if you are into thrillers. And why wait all these years ??I know this is fiction but what Luki does for a living does defy credibility. But I do like Sonny. A gifted weaver, Sonny's character is unique and I wish more is said of his background. But the focus is Luki Vasquez and even if I want to like this supposedly intriguing character there are instances when I find this much older character rather lame. Maybe the story would have been better if Luki is in his early thirties rather than forties because that is the age his personality reflects. On the romance side, I do like the developing chemistry between the two and there is that instance when their emotional exchanges got to me.