Helpful Score: 2
This was the December 2012 pick in my online book club, The Reading Cove.
I really can't believe how little I cared about these characters or what happened to them. The story was just wash, rinse, repeat with an endless cycle of whining, complaining and justifying by the one-note characters, Catherine, Ralph, and Antonio....and they were all tepid idiots. Hardly people you want to spend 300 pages with.
And the author really lost me about 13 chapters in when the reader is manipulated in such an amateur and haphazard fashion! It's like the author just got the idea for a twist right then and tossed it in about 145 pages into the story. It felt extremely contrived and manipulative.
But let's not forget some of the yuck factors. For example - there's a scene where someone's kiss is compared to slippery oysters or some nonsense like that....and the book was full of sex, sex, and more sex....only without the sensuality the author seems to think was there! You just end up feeling you need a shower.
So if you enjoy being gerrymandered by an author, and/or reading about hollow, vapid characters who think about sex, money, death and very little else, you may enjoy this book. Otherwise, I'd say skip it and find something that respects your intelligence a bit more. I give this one a D.
I really can't believe how little I cared about these characters or what happened to them. The story was just wash, rinse, repeat with an endless cycle of whining, complaining and justifying by the one-note characters, Catherine, Ralph, and Antonio....and they were all tepid idiots. Hardly people you want to spend 300 pages with.
And the author really lost me about 13 chapters in when the reader is manipulated in such an amateur and haphazard fashion! It's like the author just got the idea for a twist right then and tossed it in about 145 pages into the story. It felt extremely contrived and manipulative.
But let's not forget some of the yuck factors. For example - there's a scene where someone's kiss is compared to slippery oysters or some nonsense like that....and the book was full of sex, sex, and more sex....only without the sensuality the author seems to think was there! You just end up feeling you need a shower.
So if you enjoy being gerrymandered by an author, and/or reading about hollow, vapid characters who think about sex, money, death and very little else, you may enjoy this book. Otherwise, I'd say skip it and find something that respects your intelligence a bit more. I give this one a D.
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