Review: Stays surface level
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2011
The way this story was written, it didn't feel as if the characters were any more than sketches to the author.  As a result, you never really care about them as a reader.There is a woman with magical abilities who dies, leaving an adult daughter and a husband, who drinks away his pain.  The daughter seeks to help her father by using what she knows of her mother's magic.  The father was a really unappealing character -- he wallows in self-pity and when he gets back on his feet, he blames his aide for everything.  I would hate to think that an aide to the blind would refuse requests from the person who was helping.  If a blind person wants to drink, why is his aide supposed to stop him?  Are they his moral police?Even the father's self-pity and later annoying judgmental streak would be okay if the characters had more depth to them.