Love, Honor & Cherish

Rating:
Summary: Simply Awful....
Review: There are 3 stories here; the son, father, grandfather. All were pretty boring. There's really nothing worth mentioning about the 2nd and 3rd stories, so I'll skip those, but there was much about Jason's character that bothered me. I don't know if this author truly can't merge the rich with the poor, or if she made Jason the way he was on purpose. If the latter is correct she created one of those "what's-in-it-for-me" guys. Case in point: Dana's brother causes lots of trouble at his high school. Jason decides to accompany Dana, his girlfriend of about a day, (and even then Dana has no idea Jason thinks of her as that; who would at this stage?) to the school to deal with the brother. Jason does this because he "...decided it would be good for him to see firsthand what it meant to deal with a troubled lad." Forget the fact that Dana was a wreck and Sammy was scared, this was all about Jason's curiosity. And as far as charitable contributions go, the fact that Jason often wrote "several large checks," to charity should never be discounted as "not really doing anything", but the fact that the word "large" was used was telling. This was where I began to believe the author was oblivious to how that came across, thereby making Jason pretentious, but trying not to be.
And I liked Dana; she didn't apologize for being poor, but I don't believe anyone would act the way she did in that tavern.
I will say, though, that while I didn't care for these stories, the author is witty in her writing.

Rating:
Summary: Simply Awful....
Review: There are 3 stories here; the son, father, grandfather. All were pretty boring. There's really nothing worth mentioning about the 2nd and 3rd stories, so I'll skip those, but there was much about Jason's character that bothered me. I don't know if this author truly can't merge the rich with the poor, or if she made Jason the way he was on purpose. If the latter is correct she created one of those "what's-in-it-for-me" guys. Case in point: Dana's brother causes lots of trouble at his high school. Jason decides to accompany Dana, his girlfriend of about a day, (and even then Dana has no idea Jason thinks of her as that; who would at this stage?) to the school to deal with the brother. Jason does this because he "...decided it would be good for him to see firsthand what it meant to deal with a troubled lad." Forget the fact that Dana was a wreck and Sammy was scared, this was all about Jason's curiosity. And as far as charitable contributions go, the fact that Jason often wrote "several large checks," to charity should never be discounted as "not really doing anything", but the fact that the word "large" was used was telling. This was where I began to believe the author was oblivious to how that came across, thereby making Jason pretentious, but trying not to be.
And I liked Dana; she didn't apologize for being poor, but I don't believe anyone would act the way she did in that tavern.
I will say, though, that while I didn't care for these stories, the author is witty in her writing.