Very disappointing that book was!
A typical Sidney Sheldon book about
love, revenge and jealousy but I hate to say this book didn't live up to my
expectation and author's reputation. More than anything, I definitely didn’t
like the ending at all.
It starts off
interestingly with a girl who has a mysterious past. I thought Sidney did it
again. The interesting thing about this book is, you have to read it till the
end to know how bad it is. I was completely glued to this book just to
be disappointed at the end.
Constantin Demiris (known as Costa) is eager to get a revenge on Catherine (our female character) after her ex-husband (Larry) nicked Costa's mistress (Noelle). He had framed both Larry and Noelle for killing Catherine and because of that, they were executed. Now he is determined to kill Catherine but before that, he wants to do the same thing to her that Larry did to Noelle but in revenge way. Then he starts treating Catherine like a princess claiming to be her ex-husband's boss,
and she blindly follows him without any question. And OMG! she is super boring and crying all the time. I have read almost all of Sidney's books but never found a woman like
her. All of the sudden he decided to make the woman the weakest
character.
Finally Catherine finds out that Costa is behind all her trouble and he
is the one who killed her husband. I thought
then bang!! Now something interesting is going to happen. Now she will do
something. Now she will be real Sidney's heroine that we have always known but
NO!!! Nothing happened there. They didn’t even encounter and the climax of the
story is something surprising but in disappointing way.
But this is Sidney
Sheldon. It’s his writing. He can make black white and white black. He has that
magic to glue his readers to his books. So, I was there reading anxiously that
something good will come up. The one thing that kept me reading was I
wanted to find out what Melina Lambrou (Costa's wife) was going to do to her husband, after
everything he put her through. What she did was expected and clever but her
stupid brother ruined it. What I don’t understand is how come Sypros Lambrou saves Costa from going to jail after knowing that he is the main reason for his beloved sister's death. Obviously there is wealth involved and Sypros got greedy. This was totally displeasing. Why Sidney?? Why Why Why?? My heart goes out to
Melina. I am probably reading too much of Sidney's book. I guess I need a break!
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