Love You Gone by Rona HalsallMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
How far would you go to protect your children? That is the question that propels the plot of this fast-paced, though clumsy, novel. A recently widowed father, Luke, reunites with his estranged family just before meeting Mel, a bunny boiler who turns his life upside down. The problem for me was that I just never liked Luke. Although he is painted as the grieving widower, for me he appeared both spineless and immature. His self-centered global view, though certainly heavily tainted by loss, just left me wanting to bitch-slap him and scream “grow up”! In fact, I don’t think there was a single character here whom I could actually say I liked. Each is so wrought with deep-seated character flaws that I was simply left racing through in a herculean effort to just finish it and find another read. Good writer, just not my cuppa.
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