Well, I bought this book, mostly because I LOVED Grazer’s book Maneater. I love that book. I first “read” it when I moved to Seattle, listening to it on my long commute between Olympia and Bellevue. I have listened to it many times, as well as finally buying the book (Dawn-do you have it?) and reading that a few times as well.
Rescue Me is no Maneater. Where as Maneater was deliciously sarcastic, Rescue Me is thoroughly predictable. Don’t get me wrong-it was a good book. It had all the good elements. It just didn’t have enough POP for me. I wasn’t laughing out loud and I wasn’t desperate to finish it. I probably wouldn’t read it again.
It is a love story. Girl has boyfriend, he goes away to college. Girl meets new Guy and falls madly in love. There are obstacles (her drug dealer brother and his baby). Girl and Guy are broken apart and reunited 10 years later. The End. There is also a POINTLESS side story about the Girl’s boss. He leads a meaningless and empty life. We don’t even find out what happens to him.
For the most part, I don’t mind books that are fun, filler books. I don’t need to be soul shaken and moved every time I read. However, I would like to feel something and this book-nothing. I felt nothing.
There probably won’t be as much lag time between books this time, as I already started the next one.
