Review: didn't quite work for me, spoilers in the review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2012
I've come to realize that Cardeno C is a bit hit and miss for me.  The hits are frequent rereads that I just love and can't rave about enough.  I must have readWhere He Ends and I Begin (Home)a least a dozen times.  And the misses are by no means awful - I read them all from start to finish,  so they get three stars from me,  but they are so not books that I will reread a dozen times that I become disappointed.  This one is a miss for me.  I didn't mind the love at first sight fairy tale aspect of it,  or David's complete change of attitude so that he too virtually fell in love at first sight too. That aspect worked for me.  Indeed David,  the older man in the pairing worked well for me and I could see why anyone would fall in love with him.Spoilers aheadBut Jonathan was another kettle of fish.  I just found him too passive and too childlike for me,  he didn't seem to have grown or matured much,  and so much had happened to him!  He passively falls into a very disturbing sex role,  and then is rescued from it.  And then he has a child,  but stays in NYC for another 2-3 years with the baby,  which makes no logistical sense.  And I hated what they did with Samuel.  It just so happens that I know a lot of 2-3 year olds right now and not one of them talks as well as Samuel did.  It was such a poor depiction of a child, and I wasn't sure why they even included a child in the plot,  that it really threw me off.  But we didn't see Jonathan mature as he became a parent and if he isn't maturing,  then he doesn't work as a character for me,  for surely you should mature as a you become a parent...