Title: The author doesn't seem to care, why should we?
Product review: This book should never have hit the press. It reads like a work in process that needs at least two more revisions. The last 25 pages or so read like she threw it together in an afternoon just to get the darn thing finished. The story is sloppy -- there are problems with characters leaping to conclusions and consequences in a single bound. Esquivel makes the classic mistake of any Creative Writing 101 student -- she tells us instead of shows us. We have to suffer through pages of boring narative just to get the point. In short, if the author can't bother working on the story line, why should we bother reading it? Laura Esquivel has the ability to be a wonderful writer, but you'd never know it from this book.
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