Review: Left me wanting
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
I read this author's other work, "Brass Buttons," and I'm afraid my review on this story is going to contain many of the same comments. I enjoyed the story plot as a whole, but there was a lack of realism to it. I feel that the main character's mother's reaction to certain incidents in the story were not very believable. Also, I was very confused by the events on the beach. I also felt the ending was too rushed. There is all this build up and the main character just unexpectedly recovers because of a boy she knew growing up. Yet, there is not real development to their relationship, at least on the part of the reader. We know they knew each other for a long time, but again, it doesn't feel real.My bit of advice to the author is if you are going to write about abuse or psychological situations in the future, conduct a bit more research about them and the impact on the victims. If you have done this, it doesn't come across in the text.Also, there might want to be a trigger warning that this book contains a violent rape.