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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but not Great, Mar 13 2004
I bought this book with the thought that it would be a cool ghost/love story as it's acclaimed to be. However, the ghost only appears at the beginning and the end of the book and only talked about in between.The love interests weren't even introduced to each other until page 102, which made the reading of the first hundred pages rather dry. While a lot of it accounted for the set up of the plot, I was a little disappointed that I had to wait so long for the hero and heroin to meet up. There is not much passion between the two characters. They meet each other and are very "proper" with each other, and the only passion is on their wedding night. However, this passionate scene seems a little out of place with the propriety throughout the rest of the book. The love scene just didn't seem to fit, and I was actually surprised that it was in there. I half expected the author to skip right over the wedding night to the next day due to the previous lack of passion between the characters. Their first kiss was at their wedding, for heaven's sake! The ghost story is a side plot to the main one, and that disappointed me as well, as I love ghost/love stories, and was hoping for more interaction with the ghost and Michael's dreams. I understood why Pinkie saw the ghost, but I didn't understand why Michael had his dreams... I was hoping for a cool plot twist such as he was the re-incarnation of the ghost since he seemed to resemble him, but no such luck. All in all, this *could* have been an A+ story if it wasn't so stuffy, if there was more passion, and if there was more intrigue with the ghost story. As it stands, I give this book a C+.
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