The One You Love (suspense mystery) [Kindle Edition]

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The One You Love (suspense mystery) [Kindle Edition]

By : Paul Pilkington
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This is very readable because it was well written but I wasn't crazy about it. It's a long, slow moving psychological thriller. This could be a matter of taste, so I'm talking to readers like me who prefer faster paced action. This one just keeps going on and on about mysterious characters and oblique references to dark secrets in the past. There were many times when I was saying, "get on with it and make something happen."
I didn't find any of the characters appealing, especially the main character, Emma. She comes across as weak and insipid and does really stupid things, like going alone into a dark basement with a smell of decomposition, or turning down the acting role of a lifetime because the casting director won't tell her who referred her to him. The author may have been trying to show her reaction to the stress she was under but I just found it annoying.
Kept reading waiting for what I was sure was going to be a sucker punch ending, and I didn't figure out who did it beforehand, but by the end I just didn't care.

From the begging of the book it was leading up to something extraordinary. While the writing was enjoyable and easy to follow, it never arrives at a place I had hope or expected. Quick read, but I wish I had the time back as the ending seems like it was just tacked on.