When Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall are completely independent of each other, I find that I adore them completely. Separately, I find them to be dynamic characters, with flaws and setbacks that made them all the more interesting and characters that I could relate to, in a rather odd way. However, as I soon discovered, these two characters are not made to be in the same novel. While the plot that put them together was good, they were far too similar and it seemed like their dialogue and relationship was too repetitive. It just seemed like they were complete mirrors of each other, and although there was potential for the creation of a turning point (for both of these characters in their respective series), it went completely ignored. As a writer it taught me that combining two stellar characters should be done with extreme caution because doing so may cause a complete cancellation of the forces that make them so stellar.