Promise Me-Richard Paul Evans

I saw an advertisement for this book a few months ago and was really excited to read it.  In the past, books by Richard Paul Evans have been fantastic and usually they are tearjerkers.  Right before I started reading it, my sister told me of someone who said that they really disliked the book.  Instead of deciding not to read it, it intrigued me as to why they wouldn't like it.  I didn't come to figure out why until near the end of the book.

If you are still planning on reading the book, you may not to read much farther.  It contains spoilers.

The beginning of the book started out about like any other of his books.  I was reading with an open mind or I wanted to say that this other person was dead wrong and it was a fabulous book.  I was enjoyable to read and it made you want to find out what happens.  I really like the short chapters as well.  Having three small kids, I can't just sit and read a big long chapter without interruption so the shorter chapters are appealing to me.  It was an easy read as well.  It's something that you can just breeze through if need be.

Toward the end of the book, I finally discovered what I didn't like about the book.  It was a love story and I usually love those.  I knew there was something funny going on but I wouldn't really explore the obvious option because I didn't think that Evans was a sci-fi writer.  It wouldn't have been so bad finding out that this man that Beth (the main character) had fallen in love with was from the future, but to have it be her daughter's future husband was weird.  The fact that he loved her as well and that they spent 10 months exploring Europe together with Charlotte (Beth's daughter) after she knew who he was was a little disturbing to me.  In fact, if that was ever to happen to anybody in real life, I highly doubt that you would still have contact with the man.  It was a weird ending to a book that could have been good had it not been the future son in law angle.

I have to say that I wouldn't read this book again and I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone.