by Elizabeth Lowell
Every emotional scene is slightly overdone. When Mariah becomes desperate, she becomes really fucking desperate. When Cash turns cruel, he turns really fucking cruel. When Mariah becomes depressed and hopeless, she becomes really fucking depressed and hopeless. Everything is overdramatized just enou...
I've read this same story by Lowell a dozen times: the cynical, bitter man and the innocent girl he doesn't trust and treats badly. This is a pretty good rendition of the theme, with some effective heart twinges and without the metaphors or phrases that she habitually drives into the ground. Also, n...
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