Review: Meh.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2013
Honestly, The Promise was meh--it wasn't the worst I've ever read, and it wasn't the best.First, it's only (estimated) 56 pages, so it's way too short for much character development at all, and ditto for the plot. Matter of fact, omit the initial attempted seduction and eventual seduction of Dolan by Leora, and the summary written in other reviews is pretty much the entire story. I go the feeling that the sex scene was developed, and then the rest of the story was written around that.Was Leora a likeable, believable (or insert your description of choice here) character? I'm not quite sure what type of character she was---I didn't really get enough to see what type of character she was, especially since I only got snippets of her at every four years of her life. The initial conversation she had with Dolan had me shifting back pages to see if I'd missed something because it was so disjointed and didn't quite make sense.Was Dolan a likeable character? Not sure there either, because even though I got a bit more on him, it was still too difficult to tell.I think that if this story had been fleshed out a bit and allowed more space for the characters to develop, I would have actually cared something about them and been a bit more invested, more engaged in their story.  As it was, the entire thing was just meh.