“ This book reads like half a novel, literally. The conflict never really gets cooking and the book reaches the point where it starts to get interesting when it suddenly ends. Most frustrating is that it could have been half a great novel. It amazes me that an editor let this one get out into the world without telling Parrota that he was really onto something if he continued to explore the relationship between sex ed tacher Ruth Ramsey and born again christian Tim even further.
At the end of the novel the characters are well established and a conflict is brewing but the book never got up enough speed to have any revelations on any of the subjects it had so far tackled. ”
Robephiles wrote this review Tuesday, August 18 2009.
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