Title: Goodman trying too hard
Product review: After the first few chapters, I found myself thinking that A Season to be Sinful was a deep, powerfully written novel. But, I realized shortly after that that I was wrong. Goodman's writing gets old very quickly. Nothing is clearly written or revealed. She tries too hard to be esoteric. She frustrates the reader by giving little mysterious tidbits and then not explaining herself until several chapters later. That's a fine gimick if utilized one or two times, but every single chapter has incomprehensible information. That's just annoying after awhile. In the end, the story gets dragged out in such a long, convoluted manner, that you just want to give up halfway through. I usually like Goodman's books, but this one just took too much effort. Plot that moves along nicely is a key element that she has forgotten in her desire to be "taken seriously" as a writer.
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