I wish I liked the characters more

cbr10bingo… Underrepresented

I really wish I liked the main character more.  I picked this audiobook (in CD form) up from the library on a whim.  The cover looked cool, and the story sounded interesting.  I’m always up for a murder mystery with a dash of hidden identities.

The main character is Polly / Pauline.  She starts out by abandoning her daughter and husband on their beach vacation and driving to Delaware.  I don’t know if this was the point, but I didn’t like her right from the beginning.  She seemed selfish, self-absorbed, and kinda bitchy.  It appeared that she always got what she wanted, and she didn’t’ really care about anyone else.  Those qualities don’t endear a person to me.

When we eventually get her backstory, it’s tragic, and I did feel more empathetic to her, but it was almost too little too late.  The mystery of her didn’t do it for me, so I didn’t really care about her.  I cared more about the two daughters she left behind, and the guy that got caught up in her wake.  Her two husbands were crap – one was abusive, and the other was a bit of a wimp and mama’s boy.  Adam was pretty good though.  I feel like she finally got a great guy, and just wasted the opportunity.

Anyway, (ooh this anyway came late in my review!) I picked this as underrepresented, because the author is a woman.  I know we’re probably getting more represented every day, but I think women are still underrepresented versus men in popularity / money / whatever in publishing!