Review: Glad I Didn't Pay for It
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
This was a free book through BookBub, and while it wasn't terrible -- I certainly would have kicked myself if I'd actually paid money for it. First off, the typos: There were words that were supposed to be deleted but weren't; there were completely wrong words (i.e., though instead of through); and in one instance, there was a wrong name for one of the lead characters!! (My guess for that last typo is that the character's name was changed at some point during the writing process, but the author didn't change it in that particular sentence.) Then there's the actual story: It seemed like the author wasn't exactly sure where she wanted to take the story, so she just wrote and wrote and wrote some more, hoping that it would somehow create a plot. In addition, although she sets up the lead characters as long-time partners, Newman doesn't establish their relationship enough in the beginning of the book to make what happens there-in seem reasonable. Finally, there's the billing this as a Christian story: No. This is not a Christian story, it's a "religious" or perhaps even agnostic story. And while it doesn't complete bother me that the story doesn't feature truly Christian characters (I'm not at all opposed to reading secular fiction -- I do so all the time), it does bother me that they promote this as a Christian story.