Helpful Score: 2
I think it's the voice. This is the second book that I have read by this author and it's honestly her voice that drives me batty. The characterization is just----off.
Rose Mae (and her perfect alter-ego Ro), wife to wife-beating Thom, tries to escape his abuse. But not really. She is really running not so much because she is fed up, but because a gypsy in the airport told her that it was "going to be him or me."
This encounter in the airport leads to a credulity-straining voyage of discovery of sorts. The voyage required more detective skills than Sherlock Holmes, but Ro had no problem!
I had a hard time following the whole "saints coming along for the ride" motif, and frankly, it was not all the compelling to me.
When Rose Mae runs, she runs toward people who were in her life before she met her husband. There was one dead end that still does not make sense to me. Keeping up with the characters in this book who left with no notice to their loved ones was a chore. And the reader does not get a sufficient explanation.
The end of the book was pretty predictable. I think this is the last one that I will buy from this author, despite me loving to read Southern literature.
Rose Mae (and her perfect alter-ego Ro), wife to wife-beating Thom, tries to escape his abuse. But not really. She is really running not so much because she is fed up, but because a gypsy in the airport told her that it was "going to be him or me."
This encounter in the airport leads to a credulity-straining voyage of discovery of sorts. The voyage required more detective skills than Sherlock Holmes, but Ro had no problem!
I had a hard time following the whole "saints coming along for the ride" motif, and frankly, it was not all the compelling to me.
When Rose Mae runs, she runs toward people who were in her life before she met her husband. There was one dead end that still does not make sense to me. Keeping up with the characters in this book who left with no notice to their loved ones was a chore. And the reader does not get a sufficient explanation.
The end of the book was pretty predictable. I think this is the last one that I will buy from this author, despite me loving to read Southern literature.
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