Review: A Descent into Madness and Obsession
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2012
For me this is not a love story.  It is the story of Elise, a spinster w/ no experience of men and Garth, a man who lost the love of his life and their daughter.  The meet when Elise tricks her family into allowing her to spend 5 days in the forest to study and draw the local flora and fauna.When they meet it is instant attraction the descends into a passionate obsession.  It is a story of a woman who loses herself in a man she just meets.I have read the other reviews and I realize several see this as a love at first sight type of story.  I can't.  To me from the first moment she touched Garth, I expected horns to appear (they don't).  This story actually filled me with a bit of dread. The sex scenes read of desperation not truly of a loving or even a liking passion.So while it was not the little romantic story I was expecting and hoping for.  It was well written.  It just didn't produce the emotions that the author was trying for.