Review: Great writing, but one of the main characters was underdeveloped
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
The writing was absolutely wonderful -- the author gave us a romance, well-written, evocative, descriptive, hot sex scenes and used action and words to tell the story.The first speaker -- Benedict -- is well-conceived and we understand his obsessions, his fears, his goals quite well. The other main character -- Evander -- remains a mystery even when the pov shifts and we hear/see into him. Sadly, there is a largely opaque veil that prevents the reader (as well as Benedict) from understanding him. While Benedict's failure to understand Evander is part and parcel of the internally driven conflict inherent in many a romance novel, in this case, the continuing opacity left me unsatisfied.I truly have no idea why Evander loved Benedict, why he took one look at him when he was in college and knew he was 'the one', especially with no subsequent contact. While Benedict's obsession with Evander is clearly justified with descriptions of his longing for the attractive, confident, intelligent Evander, there is little explanation of why Evander took one look while passing each other on the street and then spent years assuming Benedict was 'the one' without doing anything about it.  The few lines in which Evander muses that his life successes were dependent upon him following his instincts were insufficient to make me truly believe that he was in love, rather than lust, with Benedict.The book is a good read if you are prepared to fill in the blanks yourself in regards to Evander.