Review: Serious issues
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2010
To start off, this book is extremely well written. I was easily pulled in and taken for a ride along with the two main characters. Only the author's incessant need to liken things to other things was a drawback to her writing skill.So why the three stars? Because there is nothing romantic about one of the main character's Ethan kidnapping David (the main character), then denying him food or water for an indeterminate period of time until he acquiesced to his commands. In the book David went 3 days before sneaking into the house (only to find everything locked up). David also suffers from claustrophobia. So of course Ethan spends an inordinate amount of time trying to tie David up. All of this is defended on the basis that Ethan has David's best interests at heart. Sorry but I can't get behind a romance when one of the participants is completely indifferent to the desires of the other.The only saving grace to this book is the writing skill.