What did you like least about "Deceptive Calm" by Patricia Skipper?

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Re: What did you like least about "Deceptive Calm" by Patricia Skipper?

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I loved the book and didn't care about the sexual scenes, but there were some details and parts of the story that were not really necessary for the development of the story. And in the end everything was so quick that I missed something more there...
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I wasn't impressed with this book at all. I was disappointed in nearly every character except Sister Rosalie and Dr. Hale Senior. The author saved all the description for the traumatic parts and there were scenes that were added almost as a filler to meet some unknown quota of pages. The storyline didn't flow and nearly all the parts noted in the synopsis were in the final 60 pages of the book. I might have liked it better if it focused on the second half and you got snippets of her previous life through flashbacks or clues.
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I didn't like Barry at all, I know Tod was much more of an idiot compared, but I still didn't like the way the author mentioned that Barry would ask at every step of the way while they had sexual intercourse, while Vannessa was uncomfortable to do it right at first. And then the fact that he was brought up again later on.
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I did not like the story telling at the end. It deviated from the rest of the book with too much Hollywood in it.
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Post by Jenny Mat »

i didn't really think the end was worthy of the whole plot. It was an expected end and I would have thought to be more surprise.

The sexual content could have been toned down as I found it really very crude.
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There are two things I really did not like. I did not like the ending as it was too abrupt. I also did not like the amount of sexual content.
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Post by Dolores Lee »

The only part I didn't like about the book was how it ended. It was so abrupt and left you hanging. It seems like there should be more to the story.
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