Review: Pondorous and tedious
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2013
This book desperately needs major pruning.  The premise was interesting and the characters reasonably well defined but the story line had many extraneous parts and some glaring inconsistencies.  It read as though the author had been writing bits and pieces over a long period of time (he sort of alluded to that) then just tried to string them all together without getting rid of anything.  I almost quit about halfway  - but the story line was just interesting enough that I slogged on through by skipping or skimming through 10 to 20 pages at a time before seeing something worth reading for a few pages. The love scenes between the two major characters made me think that the author has a major regressive adolescent type fantasy crush on Brittany Spears! (to whom the heroine is several times said to resemble.)  Frankly, I was surprised I made it though to the end.