Snowdrops and Scandalbroth

I really thought I was going to like this book. It sounded like something that could have been turned into a Grant/Hepburn film and that's always a good sign. However...

I did like the two leads, even if I never felt any chemistry from their romance. The secondary plotline was decent, even if it took way too long to become amusing and I never found it as funny as it was probably supposed to be.

The big issue I had though was the writing style. I liked how there were a lot of different people to follow and I never had problems keeping them straight. They shined the most though, when the chapter was about them - like the first few building each of the main characters. Once more people were introduced to the story, the writing became ‘third person omniscient' - which means that at any moment in the story, we would be afforded an inside look at character a, then one paragraph later we would get to see inside the head of person b.

While most (though not all) of this was limited to the main two characters, some of the others got their moment in too.

I don't like this writing style. It reminds me way too much of head hopping - something that actually gives me a headache when over done. This book quite nearly over did it for me. Some people might like it, but I much prefer each character to have their own chapter - or even just a couple of pages, and then switch to someone else, instead of back and forth each paragraph.