poor writing, people not acting like people, misleading plot trick
Recently I read a bookFather: Unknown (Harlequin Super Romance)with a ``surprise'' ending: a big point of the plotwas that the woman was two months pregnant, but the hero had lastbeen with her three months ago. The surprise at the end was that the doctorswere wrong and she was in fact three months pregnant. Surprises like this area poor trick used to enhance the main characters' problems and instead ofresolving the problem by coming to grips with a very difficult situation,instead dissolve them so everything is solved without any real personal growth.This book uses the same sort of trick with the claim of hero's death.I could forgive this, except the people in this book don't act like real people: it ishard to sympathize with people who don't move on. Five years is a long time.The plot is chaotic with jumping between people and time periods.