Review: Potential but not much else
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
Although this novel has the interesting plot involving Georgiana Appleby, a women who is following in her famous physician father's footsteps and who specializes in opium addiction and withdrawal, it falls a bit flat. The hero, Alex Redcliff, a former spy and now opium addict, suffers from severe PTSD resulting from an episode in which his best friend was killed. Sadly, with all the makings of a great book, the novel really doesn't go anywhere. In addition the style a bit choppy, and there is a wholesale massacre of first person objective case which is always incorrectly rendered as "whoever and I" no matter what the position in the sentence. Truly annoying--makes me wonder if C. J. Archer ever took and English class or looked a grammar handbook, but I digress. Overall, not a terrible book, but not one I'd really recommend either.