SEE ME (Nicholas Sparks) - July 22/16

Oh Sparksy, what are you doing?? This is a typically engaging Sparks read that's rife with his usual shtick but man oh man is this thing long. It feels about five times longer than it has any right to be, and Sparks pads out the novel by emphasizing the tedious investigation into Maria's stalker. Sparks has clearly entered the I'm-too-big-for-a-goddamn-editor phase of his career and it's not good. **1/2 out of ****