Essa Alroc

Seriously. This novella almost broke my brain.

I don't understand what was going on here at all. There was no structure, the flow is awful, and the characters didn't make any sense.

I finally put this thing away at 48 percent.

The Apology follows Jesse looking for Gabrielle (Gabby) to apologize to her over what he did to her in high school. Jesse is a blank slate. I don't even get why this character would think to himself to show up uninvited at someone's home to do this. Why the heck wouldn't you write a letter? But I guess without that logic gap there would have been no novella.

Jesse shows up and there is a cute misunderstanding (not to me, it was painful) about who is he and Gabby asks him for a ride to town because she has decided to leave her husband after witnessing something she should not have.

So Jesse is a jerk. I don't know his story except apparently his life has been horrible since he was awful to Gabby back in high school. Gabby is living the life of Riley and apparently doesn't take notice of anything around her. She vaguely mentions how bad high school was for her, but she doesn't recognize Jesse at all which doesn't make sense when we are clued into the incident which Jesse wants to apologize for later.

It doesn't make any sense why Jesse decides to ingratiate himself into Gabby's life. And what gets me is that Gabby is running from something pretty terrible so the less people who know her whereabouts the better, but yet she's still letting Jesse boss her around and also manhandle her too.

The other characters in this book are not worth mentioning really. We have Gabby's husband who should have just been called foreign character, look and sound evil.

This book is also repetitive. The word apology is in this book it felt like a lot (and I only got to 48 percent). There is no flow. We have things taking place with none of it really making a lot of sense.… (altro)