Beyond Tomorrow

Rating:
Summary: Short but Sweet
Review: This was a short quick read, and I felt that I didn't have a whole lot of time to get to know the characters. However, I enjoyed this book tremendously.

The characters were real, and true to life. This book painted a picture of a very fast moving romance between two people. It showed how many things can go wrong, how hard communcation could be, but how important it has to be.

For a short novel it was wonderful. Maybe I would have liked a little more character developement, but it really didn't detract too much from the story or the out come.

Rating:
Summary: Short but Sweet
Review: This was a short quick read, and I felt that I didn't have a whole lot of time to get to know the characters. However, I enjoyed this book tremendously.

The characters were real, and true to life. This book painted a picture of a very fast moving romance between two people. It showed how many things can go wrong, how hard communcation could be, but how important it has to be.

For a short novel it was wonderful. Maybe I would have liked a little more character developement, but it really didn't detract too much from the story or the out come.

Rating:
Summary: Immature
Review: This was not my first book by Fern Michaels but it may well be my last. I realize that romances are meant to take the reader into a dream world where everything works out in the end and where plot and language are easy to digest. However, the silly characters, the thin story and the bland prose of 'Beyond Tomorrow' will probably annoy you rather than help you relax.

Why doesn't drive Carly out to Adam's house to tell him about the availability of the Sinclair property, why doesn't she realize that her messages to Adam are detoured by Simone, why does a high-powered personality like Adam have no mobile phone, why doesn't he check up on her progress for more than a week? What advantage would Carly have from double-crossing Adam? But there are many more questions any reader, who pays just the slightest attention to the credibility of a story and their characters, will ask herself.

Then of course it takes the protagonists through all the remaining pages to finally discuss their misunderstanding without shouting, crying or running away. True, considering that there are only Carly's mother, Simone and Kyle that get their (rather sorry) parts beyond the leading roles, it is amazing how little interaction and real dialogue the two get. Whenever there is a chance for an interesting or funny conversation between Carly and Adam, the author narrates much of the content. (Of course it is much easier for a writer to say that "it was easy to talk to Adam" than to show that with the an actual dialogue.)

The story was never told from Adam's point of view, so the reader never gets to share his thoughts or emotions. This and the fact that his actions and reactions are unworthy of the education, worldliness and social position he is supposed to have, hardly allows a reader to relate to Adam either.

On top of that is the prose unremarkable, certainly not witty, funny or intelligent enough to make up for the flaws in plot or character development. So to summarize - skip this one, even if it meant to add yet another Nora Robert's book to your romance collection instead.