Review: Ugh
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2013
A more juvenile and ridiculous version of "Drive Me Crazy" the movie. The female lead character, Ashton, is a selfish, bitchy princess who thinks nothing of running down anyone who gets in her way. Her best friend, Askance (seriously? ASKANCE? As a name...for a living thing? ridiculous) is a grade A Mean Girl of the highest caliber. And the male lead, Luka? He has some redeeming qualities but seems to be just as superficial as the others. All in all I was not impressed despite the authors' attempts to seem unique with so many of the characters having atypical names and whatnot, but in the end it reeked of a poorly crafted, made for tv movie.Also...with two authors you'd have thought at least one of them would have questioned the use of 'chartreuse' to describe Luka's green eyes. Had this been a paranormal YA book and he was perhaps some kind of shapeshifter or fae, MAYBE that would have been believable. It's slightly amusing to me that of all the things about this book that bothered me, that one infuriated me the most. Maybe because it was at the very end of the book and so became a focus for my irritation. But seriously, no HUMAN has chartreuse green eyes.I am glad that I gave an author or authors the benefit of the doubt and paid for this book, but honestly...get a freaking editor. It is SO worth it.