Review: Turned off in first chapter
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2012
I suppose I shouldn't post a review since I didn't finish the book, but I have to wonder - why do Calmes' books get such high ratings?  Maybe I am reading the wrong ones.  I've bought a couple and am always disappointed.It's her main characters - they are all insufferable in some way.  Like Stefan in "Timing."  He was SO PERFECT all of the time, with other characters falling all over themselves for him when he didn't do anything that great.  The characters (or the author) seem to have a very immature sense of what is "cool."  For instance, in this book - in the very first chapter - Vincent acted in such a juvenile way, I had to force myself to read on.  (And finally couldn't even force myself anymore.)  In the opening, Vincent throws a football player's presentation in the trash.  The football player had been kind of rude, but certainly not rude enough (yet) for Vincent to throw his flashdrive away.  It's like Calmes expects us all to immediately think the jock is evil and to cheer Vincent on, but the guy hadn't shown himself to be that horrible yet.  So it just made Vincent seem petty and ridiculous.  (He's the manager of the copy store and supposedly a good worker.)  If there had been some sort of build up, an escalation of insults that forced Vincent to take a stand, that I would have understood.  Instead, Vincent just stereotyped the guy.  This may seem like a small thing to some, but I just couldn't stand Vincent after that...