After the Fall

Rating:
Summary: A Good story,but poorly written.
Review: Let me preface my review by saying that I read the whole book and was really interested to see how it ended. However, I was annoyed the entire time I read this book. Jess, the main character, is a pyschologist? She is a nuerotic mess who is bullied by everyone in her life, including her three rotton children. Her teenage daughter tells her that her brother molested her, and she just brushes it off as normal behavior? I could go on and on.
Some plot points were so ridiculous I couldn't believe they were on paper. Deloros gets caught giving false testimony to a detective and then physically attacks him THREE timesand he sends her on her way.The same veteran detective lets a rent-a-cop security guard put a gun to his head and threaten to kill him and also sends him on his way. terrible dialogue.This is the 1st and last book i will read by the author.

Rating:
Summary: I liked it but...
Review: Started off with lots of steam, but somehow lost it. The ending was disturbing - what happens to Lisa? Also, what if it wasn't for grandpa's tens of thousands of dollars needed to get him off? Also - the mental image of the sister sitting on her brother's lap with him kissing her and seeing him with a huge erection sticking out of his underwear - this is passed off as 'normal' by the mom?! I don't think so - confirms my views of mental health providers - more nuts than the patients, sometimes.

Rating:
Summary: A Not Very Good Book--But I Just Couldn't Put It Down!!!
Review: This book has a good story line which is wasted by events throughout the book that just don't make sense, and by only average writing.

If you're looking for an easy, easy summer read, you'll probably like this book. But be prepared for several unrealistic, silly events to occur throughout the story--a man falling and hitting his head on the ice, who with a bleeding head goes inside and fixes himself a drink. No hospital, no doctor, no ice. The main character is raped by her husband and claims "it wasn't romance, but I wouldn't call it rape" and after the perfect, charming, athletic and intelligent son attempts suicide in the family bathroom by slashing his wrists, the psychiatrist mom puts him to bed for the night, claiming a hospital would be the worse place for him.

The best and most believable character in this book is the dog, Prozac. Usually when I finish a book I'm sad, because I know I'll miss the characters. After finishiing "After the Fall" I thought to myself, "Boy, I'm really going to miss that dog."