Review: Motivations?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2012
I found this book difficult to get into. I stuck with it for 13 chapters, but finally gave it up as a lost cause. The main difficulty I had with this novel was with regard to the character development and their motivations. I found both lead characters lacking in depth, and often felt that their purported attitudes and beliefs were at odds with how the characters were being fleshed out. For example, the scene when Marion first goes to the singles club has her commenting about finding herself in this group of "losers," a comment that seems at odds with her seeming intent to help others solve their personal problems by giving them a place to buy self-help books. When Marion meets Vince for lunch, it is difficult to understand what she wants. She seems disappoonted in a lukewarm way about him not being interested in marriage, but the last thought of hers we are privy to has her speculating that Vince is falling in love with her simply because he turns back to check her out. Belle as well is hard to fathom, and it is equally difficult to buy into the relationship between the two women because the reader is given so little real detail about the characters and how their relationship developedThis book did indeed need more editing--not in the sense of poor mechanics, but more in that so much of the story lacks cohesion and continuity. As well, the characters needed much more work and development in order to be believable and to have the relationship between and among the characters seem natural and true.