Review: Wish I hadn't read this, ended series poorly, tritely
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2013
Terribly disappointing. I'd enthusiastically read the first and later second in this trilogy, 'tho I really do believe it was more of a two-part as this "third" was remarkably disconnected from the others. Layla, supposedly a writer, somehow became puerile and embarrassingly ill at ease with language; I was literally embarrassed for both her character and the author when reading this third installment. I'm the same age as Layla and sure, sometimes it's fun to reminisce about Kajagoogoo and the armful of black rubber bangles we wore back then, but I haven't sounded like a teenager since I really was one. Why would an educated woman who makes her (successful, according to her) living as first a journo and then a writer of fiction sound like a vapid, foul-mouthed sixteen year-old? The epilogue also really let me down. Truthfully, I kind of wish I hadn't read this third book as it was a disservice to the overall story and on its own, it was poorly thought-out and treated the reader as simple-minded (the missing five years when poof! all was well and we were completely left out). Oh well.