Review: A long winded book - Boring
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2013
I struggled between 2 and three stars on this novel.  It wasn't a 'bad' book overall, but it sooo long winded. I couldn't finish this book at all.  I am a avid reader and make a habit of finishing EVERY book I read.  This is the second one in my life time that I could NOT finish.  As I stated it wasn't necessarily a bad book, but it was extremely boring as all get up.The good things about this book:It was well written, not many spelling errors and the grammar was good.  I only actually saw a few grammar things that confused me.  The characters were well built and this author knows how to give adequate details to her characters and to her surroundings.  This I thoroughly enjoyed as descriptions are always the hardest, I believe, to get accurate or across to a reader. I think the characters match each other perfectly.  I could feel their chemistry and the reason why they would be attracted. While I did enjoy reading on a topic that is not so readily hit upon in romance novels, gave this book a breath of fresh air.  I applaud the author for that.The bad things about this book that earned it 3 stars:It is easy to sum it up in a few words.  Boring, long winded and lack of romance between the characters.Let me be the first to say that I am not a fan of Union, Mob, Gangster type books.  However, while this book was based off a Union for a mining town I could have actually been ok with that, EXCEPT that it seems to me that the book was more about the Union and their fights than it was about the love, growing love or struggles of romance that are usually contained with in a romance novel.  I only got 50% of the way though this book, because I could no longer stand reading on about the Union and their struggles.  There was a bit about how the two characters in this book met, how the hero couldn't marry her because he was pretending to be someone else, but ended up marrying her any how.  The heroine had expected to marry the man so there were no obvious struggles there after their correspondence for 2 years.  I am assuming by the label that their might have been another struggle later on that I did not get to?????But overall.... their was no romantic courting, no romance struggles, nothing.  It was just  story about a mining town and a dirty Union Group of leaders.Another thing that I found hard to discern was how the characters that were "under cover" were changing names in a conversation.  On sentence states Dietz said... the next sentence states McCullogh said, but in reality these to people are the same because Dietz is pretending to be McCullough.  The same thing for Mr. Allison, who is is really Patterson.Overall the book was extremely boring and long winded and for that I did not finish it.  Half way through I still couldn't make heads or tales of who was really the good guy or the bad, except they portrayed the "Union" which was practically the whole town, was evil and on a murderous rampage not giving any credibility as to why they were against the owners.  Yes it mentioned fair wages and better working conditions... is that all they could have said? They gave no examples or incidences.If you don't mind a story about a corrupt union, then this book is for you.  If you are looking for love and romance, please pick another book.