What's the Difference? :

Rating:
Summary: Great Reading
Review: A friend lead me to the author's web site www.charlotteturnquist.com, and I read an excerpt from "What's the Difference" and loved the plot. The author's use of prose and adjectives were intelligent and witty. What great writing. I bought a copy to take on the plane when I go home for the holidays to read.

Rating:
Summary: Great Reading
Review: A friend lead me to the author's web site www.charlotteturnquist.com, and I read an excerpt from "What's the Difference" and loved the plot. The author's use of prose and adjectives were intelligent and witty. What great writing. I bought a copy to take on the plane when I go home for the holidays to read.

Rating:
Summary: Computer Love
Review: Heartbroken and disillusioned with dating, journalist/writer Paige Reece is encouraged by her best friend to answer an on-line personal dating ad. Though skeptical at first, Paige decides to forge ahead and give the on-line dating scene a try. After a little searching, Paige comes across the perfect ad, and decides to respond to the sender. To Paige's pleasure, the author of the ad is a successful political analyst, looking for a special someone to share in celebrating the completion of his doctoral thesis. Enticed by Paige's wit and charm, which resonates throughout her e-mails, Dr. Rodrick Garret decides to take the plunge and invite Paige to the perfect secluded, weekend getaway. What ensues are four glorious days of romantic e-mails, and long "getting to know you" phone calls, all in anticipation of that fateful first meeting.

In WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? Charlotte Turnquist has created two likable, intelligent characters in Paige Reece and Dr. Rodrick Garret. Unfortunately, Turnquist does not do enough with the plot of the novella to showcase these fine characters. The author builds the reader up in anticipation of the character's face-to-face meeting, but leaves that entire encounter out of the storyline. On one page, we read that Paige is ready to leave to meet Rodrick, we experience her lingering doubts about the unknown and we relish in her enthusiasm about perhaps meeting and falling in love with Mr. Right. The very next page, we read e-mails of the two discussing what a wonderful time they had, with no details as to what went on during that much anticipated weekend. What? The reader is left confused and unsatisfied, and wondering what transpired between the two. Did they like one another as we thought they would? Why, after all the hype, it appears that they will never see one another again? Or will they? What could have been a lovely journey into the romance of two likable characters was stalled and then hindered by a storyline that went nowhere.

Reviewed by L. Raven James
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers