sunnuntai 12. helmikuuta 2017

Fern Michaels: Fancy dancer

Fern Michaelsin viihderomaani osoittautui jopa kömpelömmäksi kuin ennakkoluuloissani odotin: Fancy dancer (Kensington Publishing Corp., 2016; ISBN 978-0-7582-8609-3).



Korni, korniimpi, kornein - voiko näin adjektiivia taivuttaa, mutta mikäli ei voisikaan, silti on todettava että tämä romaani oli korneinta tavaraa mitä eteeni on osunut, siinä määrin kömpelösti kirjoitettu että juuri mikään ei tuntunut omaperäiseltä tai uskottavalta. Täyttä puppua ja silkkaa höttöä. Tosin voihan olla että teksti muutaman kymmenen sivun jälkeen muuttuu ihan toisenlaiseksi, mutta sitä en usko, enkä jaksanut lähteä ottamaan asiasta tarkemmin selvää, tämä riitti, kiitti.



On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends for their father's past neglect. At least, that's the plan. When their initial meeting goes badly, a distraught Jake crashes his car and is sentenced to community work--with Alex as his parole officer. Jake must spend a year helping Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at the Dancer Foundation for neglected children. Fancy, scarred within and without by the accident that ended her ballet career, is even less happy with the arrangement than Jake. Yet as they're thrown together, Jake, Alex, Angelica, and Fancy make unexpected connections. And as he unravels the painful truths of his past, Jake realizes that his mother's greatest gift to him lies not in his inheritance, but in the future, and the family, he's slowly piecing together.

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