Review: The Rewards of Procrastination
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
This is much more than a typical romance novel. While the primary focus of the story revolves around the relationships between the four main characters, this story offers sub-plots and rich character development that will hold appeal for those, like me, who don’t necessarily clamor for the next offering in the romance genre.This author obviously did admirable and painstaking research to bring her characters and the world in which they reside to life like few other novelists have the tenacity or moxie to bother with. The engaging style of the writing and the suspenseful sub-plots are really what kept the pages turning for me, and it came as a welcome diversion during a long flight.The omniscient narrator speaks in a historical present tense which was, at first, a bit unusual to me. This is a convention that is more common in spontaneous conversational narrative than in written literature but, as I allowed the story to envelop me in a swathe of intrigue, it seemed increasingly appropriate and it actually helped to steer my mind right to the center of the action.I probably wouldn’t have discovered this book if I hadn’t borrowed my girlfriend’s Kindle for a business trip. I had been planning to buy one of my own but, this time, my procrastination actually yielded a positive result. Well done!