by Linda Barnes Minotaur Books 2013 ISBN 9781250023636This is another book from the Amazon Vine program that I just read. I gave it 3 stars on my Amazon review as I think it could have used some editing help.
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This book is a huge departure for Linda Barnes and her Carlotta
Carlyle book series. She has an interesting main character Em, which is part of
a two person team of biography writers. Teddy does the interviews and she does
the writing. That is until the fateful day when Teddy is killed in a car
accident and she has to take on the rest of the interviews and writing on her
own and still make the books deadline. Em is a very quiet, low self esteem girl
who had apparently been raised in foster homes and with step fathers that were
abusive. She also has a case of agoraphobia, although if needed, she can leave
her house. I would have liked to have had more background into her early life
to understand what was making her tick now.
The current book that they had been working on was about a movie
star turned director. As Em interviews and investigates him, more and more
things bother her that she feels that she has to figure out. It is during this
part of the book that I felt like it bogged down a bit. I set the book down
after reading almost 2/3 of it and a week later I hadn't picked it up again. It
took yet another week to try to finish it. This is usually a signal to me that
the book had gotten boring or redundant and the story just didn't interest me
anymore. I did persevere however and made it to the end. It did perk up a bit
and had a rushed yet surprise ending. Perhaps with some tighter editing, the
book might have earned 5 stars.
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