![]() The characters are probably the main problem because, no matter if the most awful happenings went on, the most terrifying, the most psychologically grueling happenings, they aren’t going to matter if the characters don’t inspire any feelings other than mild annoyance. Max seemed similarly black and white while the more interesting characters, such as August, hardly get any ‘page time’. Okay, maybe I don’t get on with characters who moan about the hand fate has dealt them but refuse to do anything or let go. Her friends don’t feature enough to really become full characters and instead serve to allow her to voice her concerns and whine a bit. Juliet herself was two dimensional and, when she reads a letter in the hospital and her moment of development comes, she remains just as two dimensional but stops whining quite so much. Of course, the final scene couldn’t work without the build-up but there could have been a lot more going on. I think that’s the major problem with the novel… the first three quarters or so sets up the situation but you have very little action or even tension. However, that judgment probably comes from the last fifty pages or so. ![]() ![]() I will start this review by saying that I probably wouldn’t have chosen this book for myself but my mother bought it for herself, read the first page and then realized it wasn’t her kind of thing and I simply couldn’t leave it sitting unread on the shelf… ![]()
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