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Title: Run of the Mill Romance "Novel"
Review: Where was Fabio on the Cover of this book to warn off those of us thinking this was going to be a literary excursion? The prose was drivel. Numerous "deep meaning" references to food and animals left me saying "so what?". The characters were shoddily drawn caricatures, one-dimensional and wholly predictable. I was actually laughing at a few of the "revelations" of the so-called reporter Susie in her investigation of Hollis. While the subject of domestic abuse and obsessive love could have been delved into seriously..and even compellingly for the purpose of fiction...this book did little more than trivialize a serious matter with the paper-thin personalities of March, Hollis Hank, Gwen and "the Coward". I finished the book to give Oprah the benefit of the doubt...but now I see that the same thing that allowed her to engage housewife-voyeurs in the sensationalism of her talk show has also allowed her to endorse this ridiculous book.
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