Review: a standalone?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2013
I was given this book for an honest review.I have read it as a standalone so I think I couldn't fully appreciate all the details concerning previous books and a lot of character development was missing (I'm guessing it was in those books). Therefore now I'm going to buy them and see if maybe this shouldn't have been a standalone. That being said, it's possible to understand what's going on without reading the others.Maddy: it's not as if I didn't like her, but I didn't feel a connection with her because I didn't really know her. As for her pregnancy, I felt she wasn't very excited or looking forward to it. For example, when Danny talked about names she just ignore him.Danny: can't say I loved him, can't say I hated him. Again, poor character development; yes, it's explained why he's the way he's and all the dirty laundry but I don't even know HOW he was, so it was lost on me.Disregarding this, all in all, I liked it, it had a good enough plot and background story but I felt that the things that could have made it more interesting (the pregnancy, the rivalry with that female reporter, difficult relationship between father and son / parents and daughter, etc.) were merely presented and not gone into depth. Again maybe some of them were explained in other books.