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Making Promises
Making Promises by Michelle Monkou released on Sep 24, 2004 is available now for purchase.
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 2004
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August 5, 2008
Amber Delaney is on a mission: due to a scandal re: company finances and someone putting their hand in the cookie jar, her friend crumbles under the pressure and does the unthinkable. Fired up with righteousness (and a smigeon of guilt because Amber grew distant from Zoe and as a result, Zoe's condition comes as a shock), Amber goes to Texas to try and get a story on Bo Pemberton, the whistle blower for said company.
In addition to this, because the writer doesn't trust the main story, she ties in a stalker and a death, which really undermines the original plot of the story and turns it into mush.
Then, if those two plots weren't enough, there's a Kwanza celebration (will it end?) that really didn't add anything to the story.
Sighs.
There were so many things this book could have done right: the morality of whistle blowing would have been one. Like, how did Bo suffer? There wasn't much discussion about that. Or, what about Amber coming to terms with the fact that Zoe did something wrong (the question is never answered). There was also the interesting fact that the Pembertons were the first black stakeholders to have a ranch. It would have been a nice nod to history how that came to be, especially since Amber and Bo had nothing else to speak about for a time. I thought the stalker element took away from the story, and by the time I got to the Kwanza, I had to put the book to one side and call it a night.
In addition to this, because the writer doesn't trust the main story, she ties in a stalker and a death, which really undermines the original plot of the story and turns it into mush.
Then, if those two plots weren't enough, there's a Kwanza celebration (will it end?) that really didn't add anything to the story.
Sighs.
There were so many things this book could have done right: the morality of whistle blowing would have been one. Like, how did Bo suffer? There wasn't much discussion about that. Or, what about Amber coming to terms with the fact that Zoe did something wrong (the question is never answered). There was also the interesting fact that the Pembertons were the first black stakeholders to have a ranch. It would have been a nice nod to history how that came to be, especially since Amber and Bo had nothing else to speak about for a time. I thought the stalker element took away from the story, and by the time I got to the Kwanza, I had to put the book to one side and call it a night.
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