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Summary: Character Development is Number One
Review: The characters in this book carry all the excitement of a black and white television drama from the 1960s. Such a waste because the book's premise had promise. Lead character Samantha Blackwell, however, stands alone. She is more than three-dimensional and has a lot of interesting qualities. She is intelligent, focused and projects admirable priorities. She gets a mite tedious, however, with her views involving personal choices - like eating no meat on principle; never caring about buying herself new clothes preferring instead Barnes and Noble books; having no patience with addicted smokers; sympathizing with the lowliest spiders; and "loving that man" (her husband of course).. a redundancy stated twice within only a few chapters. Lots more too but not enough space here.
If the author would transfer half of the same detailed attention defining heroine Samantha to developing other characters out of one-dimensional status, the read would be much more balanced and interesting. The story needs believablity to give it strength. Character and locale development would do it.
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