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A review by petersenftleben
Unforgivable by Laura Griffin
3.0
This is my first book by this author, and I just don't think it was my kind of romantic suspense. I thought is was fine, but it didn't rise above for me, which I was expecting since I've heard great things about Griffin. Maybe it wasn't the right book to start with.
I thought the writing was good, the characters were fine, and the romance was okay, but it was the suspense element that wasn't there for me. Outside of the first chapter and the last 50 or so pages, I found it kind of dull and struggled to keep reading, often questioning whether I wanted to keep picking it up. I ended up skimming A LOT. With this type of book, I'd much rather not know who the bad guy is, but the main focus for the majority of the novel is on how Ric can prove his theory is correct. It seemed a bit narrow-minded for a cop, and it just wasn't enough to drive the story, in my opinion, not in the way pursuing a longer list of suspects would have been. I also didn't feel a sense of danger despite the two attempts at shooting Mia, and I thought the story might have benefited from moving Sophie's situation at the end earlier to amp up the intensity of the search. And given Mia's job, I think I would have liked her DNA testing to play more of a role. It just popped up here and there and it was easy to forget what she did at the Delphi Center.
I thought the writing was good, the characters were fine, and the romance was okay, but it was the suspense element that wasn't there for me. Outside of the first chapter and the last 50 or so pages, I found it kind of dull and struggled to keep reading, often questioning whether I wanted to keep picking it up. I ended up skimming A LOT. With this type of book, I'd much rather not know who the bad guy is, but the main focus for the majority of the novel is on how Ric can prove his theory is correct. It seemed a bit narrow-minded for a cop, and it just wasn't enough to drive the story, in my opinion, not in the way pursuing a longer list of suspects would have been. I also didn't feel a sense of danger despite the two attempts at shooting Mia, and I thought the story might have benefited from moving Sophie's situation at the end earlier to amp up the intensity of the search. And given Mia's job, I think I would have liked her DNA testing to play more of a role. It just popped up here and there and it was easy to forget what she did at the Delphi Center.