Susan Israel

This was an interesting book, revolving around a young woman’s troubles with a clingy and mildly abusive ex-boyfriend and a somewhat more ominous stalker. Despite it being captivating and difficult to put down at times, I found myself questioning the realism of the woman’s actions considering her predicament, and found some of the author’s description of her fear far from convincing. For example, it boggles my mind how the author could have decided that it would seem normal for a woman with two scary men after her to ask a cab driver to let her out several blocks away from her home in the middle of the night, and then run the rest of way home completely exposed and scared out of her wits. No woman being stalked would EVER make such an inexplicable decision – she’d get let off at her door and might even ask the cab driver to wait until she makes it safely inside. It really irks me when authors circumvent reality and put characters in situations that are convenient for the plot, but are completely unbelievable to a reader. And it happened far too many times in this book. As a result, I felt detached from the story and its characters, and I couldn’t appreciate the book as much as I could have otherwise.… (meer)