Dear Child by Romy HausmannMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
While many folks appear to have really enjoyed this one, I found it to be, at best, as tedious as wading through molasses. The melodramatic prose left me feeling ankle-deep in over-indulgent text that transformed one paragraph of “story” into an entire chapter of blather. By the time I turned the final page, I didn’t give a damn about a single character and found myself scanning back, sure I had missed something, ruing the hours it took me to read this as time that would have been better spent doing just about anything else. So it’s not amateur writing and author Romy Hausmann can certainly turn a phrase—I only wish those “phrases” weren’t mini-excursions that required more stamina than this old gal could muster.
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