Marcus Lopes

The blurb had so much promise, but the story itself couldn’t live up to it. The writing is sometimes hard to follow, jumping from point of view and switching to flash backs without much warning. Internal dialogue is presented in the same form as external dialogue, with quotations, leaving puzzlement as to if whatever character said certain things out loud or not.

There are two suicides within the first fifty pages, settling the tone of the story into a pit of angst. At least half of the book is full of the character’s internal thoughts and feelings, assessing every small point of the plot until there is no longer meaning to be gleaned.

The erotic scenes were mechanical, lacked emotion, depth, any sort of coloring. There were attempts to remedy this, but it was only in how ‘connected’ the character felt and how ‘in love’ they were. It didn’t change the flow of the scenes, which, by the way, would always be cut off abruptly, shifting time into the aftermath.

Pick it up if you’re in the mood for some intense drama. I was never into that sort of thing.… (plus d'informations)