I began to realize I'd wasted my money on this garbage the moment the author described the protagonist's boss as "sexy." I bought the paperback; the cover and blurb on the back suggest an emotional and moral drama with a very interesting premise, but the execution is so poor that I could barely bring myself to finish reading it.
Other reviewers have said it already. The characters are unlikable and wooden, their thoughts on the "moral issue" of the novel only serving to move the predictable plot forward, and every bit of interesting research the author has done gets shoved aside by the protagonist's stupid decisions.
The book's only well-written pages involve research the protagonist conducts at a funeral home, which, despite the book's racist overtones, and horribly-applied phonetical spelling of the African-American characters' speech, is interesting. Sadly, these pages are unrelated to the main plot.
Please don't be fooled by the packaging, or the fact that this author is apparently a bestseller in another genre. She chose a subject too big for her meager skills and wrote it poorly.
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