Honey Trap

- Julie Cohen -

I couldn't get into this one quite as much as "One Night Stand", mainly because I never really felt like I got to know the heroine, Sophie. She was so self contained and restrained all the time, that she seemed like an enigma all the way through, even when we got little hints of her past life etc.

Even in her relationship with Dominic, it also seemed liked she was holding back and there was never that moment where she seemed to give in to him, or to her emotions or anything. The lack of vulnerability or relatability made it hard to get invested in her story, or the inevitable happy ending.

Dominic was a more interesting character in that we had a much clearer idea of what his demons were, but again it seemed like they were skipped over fairly easily. He wanted to avoid thinking about how he had screwed up his marriage, his band etc, so we never learnt much about this situations, which were supposed to inform who he was now and why he had stopped drinking finally.

What I loved about "One Night Stand" was that the characters felt so real, like people I might know with real problems and emotions. The characters in "Honey Trap" felt much more remote and consequently I was much less invested in their story.