SBD

Oh, man, I thought this book would be good, but this heroine's over-reacting at the mo. She's major martyr because her parents were killed when she was 3. Now, 23 years later, she's got all the PTSD symptoms -- as if she'd witnessed the murder and clearly remembered the people who died. She's crying all the time and in shock and has just thrown up again after encountering the man who just got out of jail (and who might not have done it).

The thing is, the first description of her as someone who waits for the bad stuff to happen any second -- that one makes sense. It fit her circumstances. She had no memory of the event or her parents but it left a real, and believable scar. Operative word here is scar, not bleeding, pulsing wound directly related to the events. That's just not something that works for a regular person who was 3 when the bad stuff when down.

Those first couple of chapters of Scent of Rain and Lightning were really promising. But then the story switched to melodrama and weird back story stuff -- lots of stuff in there that seemed kind of lazy (lots and lots of POV switches etc and that "little did they know" stuff.).

But listen, despite the whining, I'm still addicted to reading because the woman can tell a story, but I no longer think it's extraordinary.