Review: Okay, but very difficult to follow
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2012
I got this book because it was free, on the top of the Kindle Store free list, and because the one review listed gave it 5 stars. However, I immediately had difficulty following the story due to the heavy Welsh/British colloquolisms used. If I didn't watch Top Gear on BBC America often with my husband, or had not picked up a few popular terms from Harry Potter books/movies, this book would have been almost impossible to read. I got the gist a lot of the time, but references to foods and places in Wales were lost on me, as well as a lot of the specifics regarding art. For instance, a lot of, if not most, American women I have known would not know a boot is the trunk of a car or call Jaguar cars pussies. I suspect many people trying to read this, even though free, may just give up.Overall, when speaking about the storyline and characters, they were decent, but the ramblings of Lu were quite annoying sometimes. Sometimes phrases, the same phrase or variations of them, were stated several times with the intent to show Lu trying to rationalize a thought. I just thought it was frustrating to read when it happened. I HATED the Stefan character, and the part with the Trading Places show was just silly for me. Again, terms that must be used only in Wales made those pages with the Trading Places show tedious to read and I found myself skimming over them. I usually find myself wanting books to be longer, and I felt myself wanting this one to just get on with it already.