Amy's Reviews > Love Overdue

** spoiler alert ** I really need to stop reading romance novels about librarians. Beyond all the stereotypes, they're totally ridiculous--no library could possibly function the way these places work. (A "small" library with 70,000 items in the collection? With four employees and a director? Two out driving bookmobiles every day? Is this 1960 or 2025, or both?)

That being said, this book is just silly. The over-stretched Wizard of Oz references got old very, very fast. The heroine, Dorothy, was whiny and irritating. The hero, Scott, was flimsy and awkward. The secondary characters were either distracting because their storylines were more fascinating (Amos, James and Jeannie were much more interesting than the above-named pair) or because they were just plain awful. Scott's mother, Viv, was dreadful. Pushy, manipulative in the extreme, borderline abusive to animals, and severely psychologically fragile, it was hard to read about her without wondering at the author's point in creating the character in the first place. Was she supposed to be the good witch? Really?

The worst of it: the resolution of 'the big issue' never actually happens. Of course, the reader knows what's happened after the fact, thanks to the epilogue, but COME ON. When you've led up to it for 400 pages, you've got to really OWN the conflict. Anything less is a cop-out.

Love Overdue is just that.

Not recommended.