Fatal Attraction
Written by Carol Smith
Narrated by Colleen Prendergast
3/5
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Carol Smith
Carol Smith is an award-winning journalist and editor for NPR-affiliate KUOW in Seattle. Previously, she worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Los Angeles Times. Her newspaper work has won dozens of national and regional awards and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize a remarkable seven times, and her writing has appeared in more than a dozen literary journals. She was recently named Editor of the Year by Public Media Journalists Association.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not as good as some of her other novels because the plot is very one-dimensional and the main character, Rose, is not very sympathetic. Everything is focused on Rose’s irrational, 20 year obsession with Joe; a one-night-stand from college. She is a truly idiotic character. Intellectually she is a genius and works a corporate job at which she excels and gains promotion after promotion. Emotionally she is a moron and fixates onto Joe with a fierceness and lack of embarrassment that is hard to take. She continually throws herself at him and is harshly rejected. Eventually Joe marries her younger sister, but even this does not deter her. Instead she hatches a complicated plot to get Joe back. Yep, she thinks she had him once and that they are destined to be together. Deluded much? She’s pretty repulsive and I don’t wonder why Joe wants nothing to do with her. The ending while interesting, lacks follow through. We’re given a glimmer of what may come, but because we’ve been basically bored to tears with the proceedings up until this point, we don’t care all that much. There is no upshot, no impact, it just sort of fizzles. I think if less attention had been paid to Rose and other plot threads worked in, the emotional level might be high enough for the reader to care. Smith might also have given us more sympathetic characters to latch onto instead of Rose, but we’re left with boring and ineffectual puppets that basically deserve what they get. As it is, I do hope Rose gets what’s coming to her, but don’t really give a shit if she doesn’t.