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Whenever I read one of Marisa de los Santos' novels, I just want to reach out and shake her and ask her, "WHY ARE YOU NOT WRITING POETRY ALREADY?!?" since de los Santos' writing style is flowery and drawn out. Her novels are filled with situations that should only take a few pages to write, but the author frequently takes her sweet time just describing situations that her characters get into or the characters' thought process to the readers often times wasting time to stop and explain some random detail that pops into the character's head at random.
Belong to Me is a much better novel than the first novel in the author's Cornelia Brown series, which is Love Walked In. Belong To Me had the makings of an intriguing novel thanks to there being long lost lovers, children who needed to have their paternity tested, love triangles, and newlyweds celebrating the arrival of their first child. Yet, de los Santos had her main character, Cornelia wax poetic one too many times for my taste causing the story to go from 5 stars down to 3.5/4 stars.
Cornelia's character is a serious motormouth. She frequently speaks in a contrived way that makes you want to infiltrate the novel and have a one on one talk with her explaining how in the real world, NOBODY else would tolerate flowery dialogues because normal people will cut you off two minutes into your monologue about your loving of random pasta dishes. Not to mention this character is beyond nice in an irritating way that makes you feel interchangeably bad for her when others tell her off and slightly gleeful that someone actually said the things you were thinking about her.
The pacing of this novel is a tad too slow and a good 100 pages could have been trimmed off the novel's framework, but as a whole, the novel is definitely worth reading. Nevertheless, I would caution readers to have extreme patience with Cornelia.
Belong to Me is a much better novel than the first novel in the author's Cornelia Brown series, which is Love Walked In. Belong To Me had the makings of an intriguing novel thanks to there being long lost lovers, children who needed to have their paternity tested, love triangles, and newlyweds celebrating the arrival of their first child. Yet, de los Santos had her main character, Cornelia wax poetic one too many times for my taste causing the story to go from 5 stars down to 3.5/4 stars.
Cornelia's character is a serious motormouth. She frequently speaks in a contrived way that makes you want to infiltrate the novel and have a one on one talk with her explaining how in the real world, NOBODY else would tolerate flowery dialogues because normal people will cut you off two minutes into your monologue about your loving of random pasta dishes. Not to mention this character is beyond nice in an irritating way that makes you feel interchangeably bad for her when others tell her off and slightly gleeful that someone actually said the things you were thinking about her.
The pacing of this novel is a tad too slow and a good 100 pages could have been trimmed off the novel's framework, but as a whole, the novel is definitely worth reading. Nevertheless, I would caution readers to have extreme patience with Cornelia.