Review: What became of the likely lads?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
I am at a loss as to why this book has so many sparkling reviews. The characters are boring and the story has been done so many other times and way better. Here are a few problems and then I am putting this awful book behind me-The story attempts to be some pseudo-fairytale: the similarities are that of beauty and the beast of course….except beauty (Columbia), who attempts to impress a man by hiding in a meal cart and confront an elusive ‘doer of bad things’ aka the beast (Dimi).There is instant love that borders sickening. I mean within a matter of 5 pages the beast goes from I want her because (insert lame reason here- including ‘because I want her’, ‘hey I don’t have to hire a hooker- she came here on her own’, ‘hey she doesn’t think I am ugly with my scars’..blah blah blah….).  Insta-love is never acceptable-The biggest problem with this story is that it lacks originality. Again, it pulls from this fairytale mentality, with the beast- actually being a psycho- I am sorry there is nothing redeemable about who/what he did/does for a living. And I am all for bad boys who reform for the sake of love- but here his past is glossed over rather quickly and all of the sudden we are supposed to care that he found love- nope.There is current trend in these self-published works (and even those published through indie-companies) that the main character if he is male must be damaged/broken/troubled in order to be redeemed by a woman- when did men in literature become so weak- that’s how I see Dimi- no matter how many times the writer attempted to paint him as a besat….