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Tess Hansen is a marine biologist who seems to be
ponderously self-absorbed. Somehow, we cannot connect to any character who is
not being nice to a partner (even if it is a one-night stand), especially when
the partner is really nice. The first chapter of the book has Tess doing just
that. Plus she is quite an ass with her perfectly ordinary family. So, right
away we developed a dislike.
Britt James is a chemist with an R&D lab who is suddenly
hit by the damage her company is doing to the environment and is shaken to the core.
She runs away into nowhere to find a way to correct the wrongs she has been a
part of and find something that she is passionate about. Britt is a much better
written character and is quite likeable too.
The initial attraction between them seems forced, especially
the pining that they do for each other without having really interacted. For
almost half the book, their growing feelings of each other were too disquieting
as there seemed to be no basis.
After about 65% to 70% the book gets a little more
involving. However, we couldn’t particularly like Tess right till the end.
Britt, on the other hand, grew more and more likeable. The secondary
characters, though not particularly developed, were nice enough.
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