Wow.... Ms. Bell is now one of my favorite authors. Seriously, the way she brings the words together makes her books so enjoyable to read. I recommend all her books.The journey this book took me was amazing and emotional. The strength, determination and forgiveness in Hadley was amazing. And the love, patience and understanding that Miller has is unconditional. I hope you add this to your TBR list. DNF I rarely not finish a book, and can count the times this has happened on one hand. I had my reasons. I started reading this book twice, with a two week break, and took it right from the top my second time around, thinking it might have been my mood that affected me negatively the first time. But I found myself irritated by the same things once again and there wasn't enough for me in the characters or the story to keep me sufficientlly engaged. I felt bad, as I always do, because the promise of this synopsis is a good one, and the storyline was very promising and could probably have been excellent were it not for the proverbial 'nails on the blackboard'. To me, the writing sounded a tad pretentious from the beginning. Normally that doesn't bother me too much, but when the elaborate sentence structures and rich word choices are riddled with simple mistakes and punctuation errors, along side a couple of blatant - slap your forehead- booboos, it just looks silly. Really, really silly. When you spend a lot of time trying to beautify and 'frill up' the language you choose to use to tell your story, at the very least make sure it is properly edited! Normally I don't hack into that very hard, but this was an open door........The story was slow in developing, so much is intangible, that by the time (twice) I got to the 50% mark, I STILL felt I didn't have a good grasp on the characters, the relationships between the various people, the meaning of the story, the direction...... It was all still too fleeting. Truthfully, it was too easy to close the book at the 57% mark. I know people who have finished and RAVE about this book and perhaps, if I had been able to ignore those damn nails on the blackboard, I might have been able to drag myself over the hump. But for now I will simply accept that although my tastes are wide and varied, on occasion I will bump into a book that simply doesn't click. It doesn't necessarily say anything about me, OR about the book or writer. It simply says it wasn't a match......
What do You think about Cut Too Deep (2000)?
DNF 40% The writing isn't my style! Pissed me off!
—Gagambala
