Audiobook/HardcoverThe book grabbed me from the start -- a father finds a "love" note in his college-age daughter's bureau and something about it feels off to him. Turns out his instincts were right on. Ashley has a stalker and he's not just interested in her, but in destroying anyone who gets in the way of his being with her...even if it's Ashley herself.
As I said, it started out strong. But we hear EVERYone's internal monologue (including the stalker's) and they're remarkably similar and banal. The decisions and actions of the "good" guys are often either inept or over-the-top and the villain of the piece was boring. Actually, all of the characters were boring and the story itself gets the boring label as well because you see what's going to happen way before the author stops talking about it and puts the plot into some forward motion but, even then, Katzenbach refuses to stop interrupting the plot to talk about the plot and go over the same details again and again. It was interminable.
Things got slightly better once I switched from the super-slow and bored-sounding audio-book narrator, but that's only because I was able to get through it faster. Boo.
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