Review: Just plain lost
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
For once I feel guilty for a review....the story was likable in the beginning...by the end I was put off and quite annoyed.Where to begin? (Spoiler Alert)Does anyone know what happened to Alex? He was such a threat that he set Lois` apartment on fire and she was hiding out from him and yet he just disappeared as an unresolved plot device. So the reader is supposed to believe that he shows up after a year to rough Lois up and one meeting with Tom later he sets the building ablaze and then skunks of into obscurity? Like seriously?There are jarring moments of bad grammar such as "I seen him". There is also the problem of first person and third person perspective change in the middle of a sentence through out the final 30% of the book. If I didn't know better I'd think this was completed by a completely different person. The end is rushed... the characters are not relate-able.Lois is supposed to have this horrible past that is the answer to why she reacts the way she does to Tom's dominant streak and it just falls short. Her past is explained over a meal and told in a way so impersonally that it might as well have not be mentioned.This story began with promise but feel short of the sweet story promised.