KILLING CUPID by LOUISE VOSS/MARK EDWARDS
I've waited a bit of time to read this one. Reviews were mixed, but mostly on the positive side. So I jumped in with both feet.
I am so disappointed. What starts out as a student stalking his writing instructor turned into something that reminded me of the Keystone Cops.
Alex, the student/stalker, starts out as a somewhat typical stalker ... sending her notes in the mail, leaving dead flowers for her, getting a key to Siobhan's home. Siobhan is a little older, a little more mature than Alex, and she's able to tell him that she just isn't interested ....but then this is where some of the craziness begins.
She doesn't report this to the police ... not even when another student that she's become close to dies in a horrible accident ... not when her ex-boyfriend is threatened to stay away from her. When Alex finally realizes that she is never going to love him back, he finds a new girlfriend .... and Siobhan begins to wonder what the new girlfriend has that she doesn't. She begins to stalk the girlfriend. Sheer craziness!
To be honest, I didn't like any of the main characters .. not because they were badly written, but written well enough to know they all had major issues and fed off each other. They all had issues of one sort or another, and they were all sneaky and secretive and mean and hateful.
To be fair, it's not a bad book; it did keep me reading until the very end. Would I want to read it again... No! Do I want to read anything else by these authors ... Probably Not. Was this book a waste of time for me .... not really.
All I can say is read at your own peril.
I've waited a bit of time to read this one. Reviews were mixed, but mostly on the positive side. So I jumped in with both feet.
I am so disappointed. What starts out as a student stalking his writing instructor turned into something that reminded me of the Keystone Cops.
Alex, the student/stalker, starts out as a somewhat typical stalker ... sending her notes in the mail, leaving dead flowers for her, getting a key to Siobhan's home. Siobhan is a little older, a little more mature than Alex, and she's able to tell him that she just isn't interested ....but then this is where some of the craziness begins.
She doesn't report this to the police ... not even when another student that she's become close to dies in a horrible accident ... not when her ex-boyfriend is threatened to stay away from her. When Alex finally realizes that she is never going to love him back, he finds a new girlfriend .... and Siobhan begins to wonder what the new girlfriend has that she doesn't. She begins to stalk the girlfriend. Sheer craziness!
To be honest, I didn't like any of the main characters .. not because they were badly written, but written well enough to know they all had major issues and fed off each other. They all had issues of one sort or another, and they were all sneaky and secretive and mean and hateful.
To be fair, it's not a bad book; it did keep me reading until the very end. Would I want to read it again... No! Do I want to read anything else by these authors ... Probably Not. Was this book a waste of time for me .... not really.
All I can say is read at your own peril.
