A nice read.

Detour by Amy DeMeritt

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I only read one other book by Amy DeMerrit: A love to stay for, so when I ran out of suggestions to read right now, I started re-reading it, but then I decided to re-read it as a proper book, as I liked it so much. So I ordered the paperback edition and went for this one instead.

At first it felt like a debut from an author trying to find her style. I have always found present tense narratives hard to read, even with a third person narrator. Having read her before, though I struggled through the first couple of chapters and found here, too, what I liked before, two adult characters, who behave appropriately to their age and experience. The storyline here, too, is interesting and pretty straight forward, a sweet sapphic romance without any teen-age doubts and fears and two women, who talk to each other and do their best to make their almost instant attraction last and develop into something stable and lasting.

The writing is not as smooth and elaborate as what I read before and the editing not as perfect, another fact that somehow hinted at it being an earlier work. It nevertheless was a nice read in the end, hence the slightly weak four stars.



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