Review: Redundant
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
I liked the first book in this series. And I didn't hate this book. I mean the story was one I was looking forward to and the story between the two main characters in and of itself was something interesting. And, in theory, this could be read as a one shot pretty easily I felt if you weren't too attached on having the back story on some of the characters. But I have some issues with this book that I couldn't ignore.The dual point of view again. And again this is a personal problem of mine but I hate it. I absolutely hate it. Mostly because it becomes redundant. You're reading the same thing over and over again. This worked poorly in this book because a substantial part of this book is the meat and potatoes of the first book in the series. Large swaths of this book is lifted verbatim from the original book because these characters interacted so much with those characters. So for me it was bad enough seeing some of these situations from 2 points of view in the first book but now I'm seeing them from another 2 points of view but everyone is standing in the same room donig the same thing. So really it's 4 total points of view on the same conversation. And then because that's not enough you have all the other ancillary characters who rehash whatever just happened in conversation with the main two characters. So really you end up hearing about some of these ad nauseam. And what really did it for me is during this retelling of the last book so much of that story was focused on the main characters of the original book that I feel I lost something with our characters in this book.I thought I would get some back story on these two characters which I did get and that was interesting. And there were even high points when it got away from the redundant parts that made me like this story. I just wish more of the story could have been their story. Instead of the ancillary characters' story whoever the characters were. I feel like I got a lot of everyone else and not a lot of them. And to a point I know that's because you can only write so much about someone drinking themselves to death and stripping. So ****spoiler**** here. I'm confused about her pregnancy. Something about the time lines between the last book and even within this book was not adding up to me and I had some issues really wrapping my mind around that whole situation I guess. I mean I get how it happened and supposedly when it happened but I don't know. I don't know what exactly it was but the time lines felt funny to me. And further spoiler... I'm assuming his renal failure resolved itself? He was turning jaundiced at one point in the book. That was a pretty big pill for me to swallow too.There were some minor spelling and grammar issues in the book that would likely bother someone a lot who fixated on that. So be warned.Anyhow I decided to go for 3 star on this book. I'm hoping that if there are future books (as it kind of sounds like there may be) that it's not just a rehashing of the book before that. These characters have so much more potential than that. And I'm like this whole device with the father's at the end of the books. That would be a fun theme to carry over.