Review: Plot Filled with Holes
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2012
I appreciated the clean story with little cursing and no sex scenes. The storyline was interesting, but I found many loose ends. Chapter 1 begins and ends with the very same text, and I didn't like the redundancy. The scenario would've been better left at the end and deleted from the beginning. If Mark said their son had died four months earlier, and Grace remembers seeing him up until the accident, why didn't she check with the Atlanta doctors or hospital? I would have. At one place Grace's eyes are so dark they are almost black. Later, they are a golden brown. When Grace has to unexpectantly stay overnight at Gatlin's house, where did she get her toothbrush? Grace finds a bloody Jo on the floor, says she can't believe it, and asks who did this, but Grace is in the middle of an FBI investigation and was shot at herself, so what had happened should've been obvious. When Gatlin took Grace to a motel for safety, she didn't have any of her things with her, so how did she take a shower and change clothes? I couldn't understand why Grace didn't phone Gatlin and get him to go with her to Claire's house, and, if Gatlin had stood watching the two women fight, why didn't he intervene earlier? On top of all this, the dialogue was often awkward. I also wish the ending had been longer, maybe with a committment to date, a kiss, or something.I struggled with whether to give the novella a three or a four. I didn't find the ending at all surprising. It was what I had suspected all along. I finally decided on a 3.5, which rounded up to a four. I did like that it was clean, the plot was intersting (despite the holes), and the author lives in North Carolina. :)