The Mystery Starts Here

Okay, I gotta ask – are some author’s paid by the word? Because that’s the ONLY justification I can think of for this long, boring book! I should have known better. I’ve read, I think, two other books by this author and both were ruined by overwriting. Matter of fact, I think I only read one and gave up on the second – no matter.

Staub has good ideas but her writing suffers from too much introspection and too many sub-plots. She introduces new characters right up until the end of the book and has a lot of loose threads that never get resolved. That drives me nuts. The ONLY way I managed to read this book was by skimming over half of it. It’s 416 pages long and would have been much better and more interesting at about 350.

Okay, the basic plot is all her adult life, a woman has visions of children in peril. She thinks she’s crazy so ignores the visions and tells no one. Eventually she has a vision of her own, fourteen-year-old daughter and of course, part of it comes true.

I have to tell you, I hated the protagonist, Camden (call me Cam) Hastings. Her husband walked out on her after 20 years of marriage because of her drinking, then she finds out she’s pregnant, so stops, but….she can never find the right time to tell her hubby! HUH? “Hello, husband? I’m pregnant, we need to talk.” There, see, that wasn’t so hard. She’s clingy and whiny and totally unlikable. She was raised from a very early age by a single father and should have been stronger and had more backbone! I didn’t much care the Mike, the husband either. He walked out on her because of her drinking but…never actually said anything to her! Nice. Maybe you could try to help her?

Throughout the book we have lots of psychic crap, visions, unrequited love, blah, blah, blah. It’s too bad because the basic idea was good but the author or her editor needs to learn to cut, cut CUT! Never again a Wendy Corsi Staub book, I swear!

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