Title: Dialogue straight from a poorly written soap opera
Product review: The basic plot is interesting enough, and there are plenty of reviewers who described it well enough... my beef is with the characters' dialogue! Much of it could be right at home in a paperback romance... Halfway through the book I began laughing aloud, and it wasn't during any intentionally funny parts. It's as if Mr. Grimwood intermittently handed his manuscript over to a 16-year-old wannabe soap opera writer and said, "Take it away!" Stuff like, "He breathed into her tawny hair," and the woman coyly asking the main character, "Why aren't you looking at the scenery," followed by his ogling, "I AM..."Ugh! After that I pretty much skimmed through the rest of the book to get to the resolution without my eyes rolling out of my head.
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