No time for goodbye

How does rubbish like this get so popular and garner so much attention? I realise that the Richard and Judy readers are an undemanding lot whose critical standards are non-existent, but this is just woeful. There is no narrative velocity, the writing is pedestrian, the characters poorly developed and the resolution so wildly improbable and unconvincing that it engenders nothing more than frustration and annoyance that a few hours of my valuable time were wasted on reading it. It might have made a decent 250 page novel, with some judicious editing and a bit of juicing up of the suspense, but as a 400-plus page novel it is overlong, flabby, flaccid and dull.