Nadine (23dollars) - reviewed on 7/6/2016 + 432 more book reviews

I read SIX YEARS with a reading buddy in my online book club, The Reading Cove. If this was an attempt at exploring the passion and depth of love found and then lost, please insert laughter here! LOL

So Jake dates Natalie for a little over 3 months before Natalie dumps him and marries another. At her wedding, she makes Jake promise to leave them alone. For good.

Flip the page 6 years and Jake has still not moved on from his obsession with Natalie. And what's more? He is now primed to break that pesky promise and go chasing after Natalie, even at the risk of his own and other people's lives.

And, trust me, the whole thing is mindless reading at its worst.

This really could've been a quality mystery, but it's not. It's a very poorly constructed and extremely shallow pseudo love story. There is nothing in the narrative that even remotely supports Jake's dogged motivation to continue his pursuit. Why are we supposed to care what happens? Where's the tension? Perhaps if they'd had a history of more than three months (3 WHOLE MONTHS!) there could've been some much-needed depth and passion found in the plot. As it is, it was painfully hollow. A waste of time I could've spent reading something else.

I'm sorry, but when you have to turn your brain off to enjoy a story, it's no longer clever. So I could only recommend this for teenagers. If you're looking for a quality mystery/suspense, I highly recommend THE ACCIDENT by Linwood Barclay, vs. wasting your time on an assembly line production like this. 1/5 stars.

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