Review: Awkward and Incomplete
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
As soon as Ben meets Caroline, he's interested, but she is coming from a break-up with her former fiancé, and the guy is stalking her. When Hurricane Irene moves into the Outer Banks, things get even more scary, and Ben's faith is tested. The storyline was interesting enough, and I appreciate the clean content.I never did care as much for Caroline as I wanted. She seemed so remote and unpredictable for a long time. Ben was more likeable but seemed very awkward, maybe because his dialogue seemed too stilted. The author also needs to review his normative and objective pronouns. "Around he and his father's house" and "with he and Mason" are incorrect. The real problem with the novella was the ending, however. I was all poised to give the story at least a four, and then it ended. There was no conclusion; it just ended. Only one of the loose ends was tied up, but many more were left up in the air. I thought maybe the author had left things for a sequel, but I looked, and there doesn't seem to be one. This was disappointing. If he'd completed it, he would have had a much better novel.