![]() ![]() So, why am I such a hater? It came down to the fact that the characters had no personal agency. It would have been such a poorly executed joke, though, that I had to assume I was meant to take the story seriously. ![]() Honestly, I wondered at one point if the entire book was a joke poking fun at Romance. However, I like and read Romances that are much better than this one. This is not a problem for me as I like and read Romance. You see, even though I described this as sci-fi it’s pretty much straight up Romance (with one exception that I’ll go into later). Of course, by the time that happens I’d mostly lost interest in the story and was spending my time wondering why. As he moves closer, in emotion and in time, to Elise McKenna the style changes to traditional story-telling (Richard, being a writer, even comments on his own style changes). It’s easy to read over even if it’s not necessarily compelling in a narrative sense. I actually enjoyed the point by point movement through his days. ![]() Richard’s style begins as one of dictatorial lists of his activities and feelings (with a bit more naval-gazing than I can tolerate in books but he did just learn that he is going to die soon so I should probably forgive him that). ![]()
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