Review: Not your typical romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
The Vow is, at its heart, a love story, but it's also much more.  Shades of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo mesh with J.D. Robb-like mysterious intrigue then react with a blend of interesting characters to create one of the best books I've read recently.You *will* have to work a little harder to keep up in The Vow than in a traditional romance novel, but the juice is very much worth the squeeze.  Fallon introduces you to at least a dozen important secondary characters, and flips back and forth between them with no reminders to the reader of who is being spoken about.  But if you're willing to keep your brain active, you'll find that each side character has a purpose and that each scene adds up to create a cohesive whole.I enjoyed the gray qualities of the characters --- no one is perfect and no relationship is easy.  I also appreciated the way the author never took the easy way out, not using sensationalism to move the book along when she could instead rely on good characterization.  Overall, the book is one of those rare novels that will probably appeal to women and men equally, and I would give it six stars if I could.