It’s not often that something or lack of something in a book bothers me enough that I feel the need to respond to it. I even waited a while to give me some space between reading the last page and writing this post. Keep in mind that everything beyond this sentence is my opinion and my imperfect experiences as a person and a writer for many years. Books are subjective, I totally get that. What one reader will love can bore another. As a writer, I do notice when an author has been lazy or is choosing to not do the work their story deserves. There were a lot of things that weren’t working in this novel, but I am only going to write about the one element that tipped the scales against it. A bad case of the straw man is what brought me to it. No, this hasRead More