Title: Painful start but worth hanging in there.
Review: Ms. (Dr.?) Stone's writing is intelligent, but the first portion of her book followed the romance recipe of mystery + loss + misunderstandings so much that I found it excruciatingly painful. But I hung in there and the undeveloped characters finally became people I cared about and by the end of the novel I wished the book would not end. I hope in her future books she gives us a little more character details in the beginning so that we can care about the people enough to keep reading.
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