Talk:The Devil's Kiss/@comment-33037984-20170909002623

This novel being the first one in a series contains a lot of setting up details that the actual love story component was quite shallow. It must be noted that the main characters met and fell in love in a very short span of time (less than three weeks). Characterization was perhaps enough given the length of the novel but the aspect of romance is left wanting. The fact that Marco's point of view is very limited, the reader is unaware of his full intentions. Most of his characterization is supplied by insights verbalized by other minor characters rather than his own action towards the heroine. On the other hand, Emerald's supposed feistiness and stubborness was more of a Mary Sue characterization, everything and all is of serving to her character to move the plot. The conversations and arguments of the lead characters can be argued as lacking wit, a disappointment given that one is supposedly an author and the other a prominent lawyer.