Review: Introspective Work
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
Note: I was given this book in exchange for an honest review.Selene is off on a holiday adventure. She is a career woman who has thrown herself into work to escape the pain of unhappy relationships and needs to get away. She meets Hudson, a young man with a body that attracts her and allows her to have a physical encounter she needed.When I read this book, I found that the writer spent most of the time expressing Selene’s innermost thoughts and desires in a way that made me think that this girl could really use some therapy. Perhaps this was the author’s intent; if so, he nailed it. She seems unhealthily detached from the world around her. A line from the book reads, “What layers of reminiscence and what masses of the present—vaguely sprawled over the square miles’ patchwork and underneath them all, the ooze of potentiality devoid of any good or bad quality because it would never rise or touch to see the light of any test.”It is a complex book that does not fit the traditional romance genre as it lacks a happy ending. The writing is a little hard to follow at times, but Mr. Russell put a lot of time and effort into his book and it shows.