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Synopsis
Rosalee Futch is a small town girl who works at her local Piggly wiggly and a major crush on movie star, Tad Hamilton. Rosalee is also blissfully unaware that her manager at the store and friend , Pete is head over heels in love with her. Rosalee enters a national competion to win a date with her favorite star and wins.
Story
Rosalee lives in a town in West Virginia, she works at a store and hang out with best frineds and co-workers Pete and Cathy. They all enjoy the simple pleasures in life like going to the local bar and the cinema. Cathy and Rosalee particullarly like romance films especailly ones starring their favourite Hollywood hunk, Tad Hamilton. They believe him to be just like the the romantic leading men that he always plays.
Over in Hollywood, work of latehas kind of dried up for Tad, he's been papped driving ...
character that turns up (especially the fey males) is simply very, very boring.
The language doesn't exactly soar either, with a plodding, unbelievably wooden dialogue, frequent repetitions that should have been edited out, a surfeit of unnecessary adjectives and and occasional but very grating clash of modes (as a single example: "my mother's emotional ambivalence towards me" doesn't fit with high epic style of the sequence in which it's included, but there are many others).
Still, "Swallowing Darkness", while by no means the best in its sub-genre, is not entirely dreadful either. I wasn't tempted to seek out previous books from the series nor other novels by Laurell K. Hamilton (she also authored a long series about Anita Blake, the vampire hunter), but I read this one in two days while recovering from a 'flu and it was fun.
As a fantasy ...
Advantages: Good location, nice, friendly, family run hotel Disadvantages: None to speak of
My wife and I spent from 19/10/07 - 21/10/07 at the Hamilton to celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary and both enjoyed our stay finding the staff always to be friendly, helpful and most of all approachable. The hotel is going through a transitional change with the bar/relaxing and resteraunt areas already completed to a higher modern standard. I am sure when the rooms go through as the next stage they will be to the same standard, although in fairness we where more than happy with the cleanliness and standard of our accommodation providing us with all we needed for our stay. To conclude they made our stay a happy one and we would have no hesitation in returning in the future. ...
