Minor characters joke about how perfect and cute they are together. Everyone around them loves them because they are so cute. They are very cute together, always flirtatious, even after, I assume, many years of blissful marriage together. Savitch is the tough, strong husband, and Sherlock is the petite wife. Of course, it may be a long while before I attempt reading another Coulter novel again, as I am still trying to clear the sour taste of this book from my literary palate.Ĭoulter apparently writes a series of 'FBI thrillers' with recurring characters, FBI agents Sherlock and Savitch, who also happen to be married with a young son. I always give an author several chances because the first time may have been a fluke-I may not have liked it because I was in a pissy mood when I was reading it, or maybe the author was suffering from writer's block at the time he or she wrote it and it clearly wasn't the best of their abilities. This is the first Catherine Coulter novel I have read.

Mostly on my part-the reader-for not being able to connect at all with what the author is trying to do. I may set it aside for months, even years, but it is always lurking somewhere ominously on a bookshelf, the bookmark still in its place, an unfinished project. It frustrated me to no end because I find that reading a bad book is right at the top of my list of annoying things, and I am unfortunately one of those slightly-OCD readers that has to finish a book once it's started. I am generally a very positive person, but this book was infuriating. I am typically someone who tries to find the best in every book. I don't typically give books negative reviews. Don't be fooled, either: the one star rating I gave this book is actually very generous.

That isn't the most clever of wordplay, I know, but it's the truth.

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