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Rarely do I come across a book that decreases in stars (rating) as I read it. Either this book is really bad, or it's a comment on how a writer can make it big as long as there are explosions, cute animals, porn kings and stars, paternity tests, saved marriage, a brush with drug lords, babies, sex toys...all those crazy things network execs say "sell" but don't offer anything to the story. That or this book was written with the hopes that it would be made into a Hollywood blockbuster because of the aforementioned gimmicks. If these latter options are not the intent, then I don't know what this book was about. There are so many long-winded, insignificant details (like a full description of the scene on the tv that plays while someone is sleeping infront of it, instead of just "Jerry Springer was on the tv") and so many unrelated domestic tangents that what I thought was supposed to be the main story became the third level subplot. The dialogue was lame, the characters flat and uninspiring. [b:Water for Elephants|43641|Water for Elephants|Sara Gruen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170161179s/43641.jpg|3441236] was okay, but this one sucks.
Notice I gave my entire review without mentioning the Apes? That's because they're relegated to the third level subplot. If the book was about them, I might have liked it. But they seem tangential to John and Isabelle's stories that it's a book not about apes at all.
Notice I gave my entire review without mentioning the Apes? That's because they're relegated to the third level subplot. If the book was about them, I might have liked it. But they seem tangential to John and Isabelle's stories that it's a book not about apes at all.