Review: Disappointed - Missed the Mark
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2012
I just finished reading the three books in this trilogy of sorts:  Faithful Deceptions, Shattered Souls of Innocence & Target of Betrayal and I'm sorry to say, I am truly disappointed.  I'm a lay person and not a literary critic, so maybe I don't know what to look for in an good novel, but I know what I like and this missed the mark.  I feel these three mediocre books could have been one good book if the excessive description and "thought dialogue" had been eliminated.There was just too much "contemplative thinking" by the main characters as they decided how to handle a situation and it often dragged on ad nauseam!  The excessive words and descriptions did not build the suspense, it made me irritable and it was a needless distraction from the story.  The characters did not make me care about them and I was exhausted with some of the last minute twists and turns which added no value.  I found myself skim-reading just to get through the noise to the nuggets.The short story (Shattered Souls of Innocence) did not skillfully transition Faithful Deceptions into Target of Betrayal; it was just a short story with more people who failed to hold my interest.Why did I rate this trilogy 2 stars instead of 1?  Because I foolishly finished all three in the series when I should have stopped with the first one.  I kept hoping the next book would get better, but it didn't.Sorry.