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Review title: A Mystery?
Product review: I've read and enjoyed Hoag's novels before, but this one I just could not get through. I don't like romance novels. Lots of people do, and that's totally fine. However, this book is described as a mystery novel (read that back cover and tell me if it gives any inkling as to its being a romance), when it most certainly is not. There is no mystery or suspense until well into the second half of the novel.The first half crawls by at a snail's pace, and you get an inordinate amount of detail about, to be perfectly honest, a bunch of terrible people. Laurel, Jack, Vivian, the Reverend, Ross- none of them are very nice characters. There's really no one to root for except for maybe Aunt Caroline, and she's got a very small part.Hoag is generally a great author, but this is not one of her best efforts.
